Cloudy skies, scattered rains over parts of PH due to the easterlies

The easterlies will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms over parts of the country on Friday, PAGASA reported.

As of 3 a.m., Tropical Storm Hagupit is located 1,615 kilometers east of Northeastern Mindanao packing maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hiur near the center, gustiness of up to 90 km/h and moving west northwestward at the speed of 20 km/h.

Forecast Weather Conditions

Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, BARMM, Davao Oriental, Davao Occidental, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, Siquijor, and Palawan will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms due to the easterlies. Flash floods or landslides may occur, PAGASA said, due to moderate to at times heavy rains.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms also due to the easterlies with the possibility that flash floods or landslides will occur during severe thunderstorms.

Forecast Wind and Coastal Water Conditions

The wind speed forecase for Northern Luzon is light to moderate moving in the southeast to northeast direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

The rest of the country will experience light to moderate wind speed moving in the east to northeast direction with slight to moderate coastal waters.

Sunrise will be at 5:31 a.m., sunset at 6:15 p.m. — BAP, GMA News