By Dean Aubrey Caratiquet
A low pressure area (LPA) being monitored by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) at 12:00 p.m. Thursday, according to the agency’s 5:00 p.m. bulletin.
The LPA, which formed from the cloud cluster identified earlier by the state weather bureau, is touted to have a “high” chance of developing into a tropical depression within the next 24 hours.
As of 3:00 p.m., it was last located 1,060 km east of southeastern Luzon Visayas and is forecast to move in a westward direction.
The weather system will be named “Ramil” once it intensifies into a storm.
As of press time, easterlies continue to affect most of Luzon, Eastern Visayas, Aklan, and Capiz, which may experience cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms.
The rest of the country may experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms caused by localized thunderstorms.
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