LPA, habagat to bring scattered rain on parts of country

The Low Pressure Area (LPA) and southwest monsoon or habagat will bring cloudy skies with scattered rain and thunderstorms over parts of the country, PAGASA reported.

At 3 a.m. on Thursday, the LPA was estimated at 800 kilometers east of Extreme Northern Luzon.

Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Caraga and Davao Region will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the trough of the LPA with the possibility of flash floods or landslides occurring due to moderate to at times heavy rains.

The northern portion of Palawan will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the southwest monsoon with flash floods or landslides possibly occurring 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 due to the trough of the LPA and localized thunderstorms with flash floods or landslides possibly occurring during severe thunderstorms.

The wind speed forecast for Visayas, Mindanao, and Palawan is light to moderate moving in the southwest to west direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

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

Sunrise will be at 5:46 a.m., sunset at 5:48 p.m. — BAP, GMA Integrated News