By Dean Aubrey Caratiquet
A low pressure area (LPA) being monitored by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) is set to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Tuesday night, 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 “medium” chance of developing into a tropical depression within the next 24 hours.
It was last located 1,070 km east-northeast of Eastern Visayas and continues to move in a west-northwest direction.
As of press time, easterlies continue to affect the country, with Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, and the provinces of Aurora, Pampanga, Bulacan, Zambales, Bataan, and Northern Samar to 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.
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