MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) is now monitoring a new low-pressure area (LPA) that is expected to enter the Philippine area of
responsibility by Tuesday or Wednesday.
State weather experts said the weather disturbance has a high chance of developing into a typhoon and may make landfall somewhere in Luzon or Eastern Visayas by Thursday.
PAGASA said the LPA, which will be named “Paeng” if it indeed gets stronger while approaching the country, was last seen some 1,400 kilometers east of Mindanao in the Pacific Ocean.
Meanwhile, with Typhoon Obet now outside the Philippine area, the northeast monsoon or amihan is bringing slightly colder temperatures with scattered light rains in a big part of Northern Luzon especially at dawn.
An Intertropical Convergence Zone or the meeting of winds from the Southern and Northern hemispheres is also bringing some cloudy skies and rains to parts of Mindanao.
In its three-day weather outlook issued yesterday, PAGASA said Metro Manila, with temperatures ranging from 24 to 32 degrees Celsius, will have fair weather which means sunny weather up to noon with high chances of rain in the afternoon to evening.
Baguio City, colder at 16 to 24 degrees, especially now that the amihan season has begun, will also be fair with light scattered rains in the next three days.
PAGASA said the Bicol region will have fair weather on Monday, but is forecast to have higher chances of rain by Tuesday and Wednesday because of the approaching LPA.
Visayas is also expected to have fair weather today and on Tuesday, but cloudy with more rains by Wednesday also because of the approaching weather disturbance.
PAGASA said Mindanao will also have fair weather in the next three days, but with chance of rains because of localized thunderstorms.