Cloudy skies, scattered rains over Batanes, Babuyan Islands due to frontal system

The frontal system will bring cloudy skies with scattered rain showers over extreme Northern Luzon on Friday, PAGASA reported.

Meanwhile, the weather bureau is monitoring the active tropical cyclone outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility.

As of 3 a.m., the tropical depression is located 955 kilometers west of northern Luzon packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour with gustiness of up to 55 km/h and moving in the west northwest direction at 10 km/h.

Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the frontal system 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 localized thunderstorms with flash floods or landslides possibly occurring during severe thunderstorms.

The wind speed forecast for the whole country is light to moderate and moving in the southeast to south direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.

Sunrise will be at 5:26 a.m., sunset at 6:22 p.m. — BAP, GMA Integrated News