Good weather seen this week

MANILA, Philippines – Except for isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms, fair weather is expected to prevail in most parts of the country this week, the state weather bureau said yesterday.

Typhoon Dindo (international name Lionrock), which enhanced monsoon rains over the past days, exited the Philippine area of responsibility yesterday and moved towards Japan. 

Aldczar Aurelio, weather forecaster at the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), said no tropical cyclone was expected to enter the country in the next three days.

However, he said the western section of Northern and Central Luzon and Western Visayas would still experience light to moderate to occasionally heavy rains due to the southwest monsoon in the next few days.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms, PAGASA added.

Aurelio said they spotted a low-pressure area over the West Philippine Sea but it was not expected to affect the country.

As of midnight, the eye of Dindo was located some 1,445 kilometers east northeast of Itbayat, Batanes with maximum sustained winds of 160 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 195 kph.

Dindo was the fourth tropical cyclone to enter the Philippines this year and the only cyclone recorded so far for this month.