PAGASA: LPA outside PAR now a tropical depression

The low pressure area (LPA) spotted outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) has become a tropical depression, PAGASA said Sunday afternoon.

At 3 p.m., the tropical depression was monitored 1,350 kms east of Eastern Visayas, with maximum sustained winds of 55 kph and gustiness of up to 70 kph, and moving northwestward at 30 kph.

The tropical depression will be called “Marce” should it enter PAR.

In its forecast, the easterlies will keep affecting the eastern sections of Luzon and Visayas in the next 24 hours.

Batanes and Babuyan Islands will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains due to northeasterly winds.

PAGASA said these weather conditions will have no significant impact.

Meanwhile, the easterlies will bring partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms over Bicol Region, Eastern Visayas, Aurora, Quezon, and the rest of Cagayan Valley.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will see partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms due to localized thunderstorms.

These severe thunderstorms may trigger possible flash floods or landslides, PAGASA said.

State weather forecasters also said the extreme northern Luzon will have moderate wind and coastal water conditions.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country will experience light to moderate wind conditions and slight to moderate coastal water conditions.

Sunrise will be at 5:27 a.m. on Monday. — VDV, GMA Integrated News