PAGASA: Tropical Depression in monitoring domain intensifies into Tropical Storm

The Tropical Depression within PAGASA’s monitoring domain intensified into a tropical storm on Thursday night.

At 8 p.m., the Tropical Depression was located at 2,805 km east of Northeastern Mindanao in PAGASA’s Tropical Cyclone Information Domain (TCID).

It is packing maximum sustained winds of 65 km/h near the center and gustiness of up to 80 km/h and moving westward slowly.

According to the post on PAGASA's website, TCID is the agency's largest and outermost monitoring domain.

"Tropical cyclones present inside the TCID are of least concern for the forecasters but are necessary enough for monitoring and public awareness purposes," PAGASA said.

According to the state weather bureau’s 4 p.m. weather forecast, the localized thunderstorms will bring partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms in Metro Manila and the rest of the country in the next 24 hours. — BAP, GMA News