MANILA — State meteorologists are monitoring a low-pressure area east of Visayas, although it has a low chance of developing into a tropical cyclone.
The LPA was last seen 500 kilometers east of Borongan City in Eastern Samar, PAGASA said Monday morning.
The weather disturbance is embedded within the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), where trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together.
“It is likely that the LPA will gradually approach the eastern part of the country and become a cloud cluster in the next few days,” PAGASA weather specialist Obet Bandrina said in Filipino.
According to PAGASA, residents of Visayas, Mimaropa, Bicol region, Aurora and Quezon province will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the ITCZ.
Meanwhile, the ITCZ and localized thunderstorms will bring partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms to Metro Manila and the rest of the country.
The state weather bureau warned that flash floods or landslides are possible due to moderate to at times heavy rains or during severe thunderstorms.
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