Tropical Depression Rosal continues to maintain its strength while moving north northeastward, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Sunday, Dec. 11.
In its 5 a.m. bulletin, the weather bureau said the eye of the center of Rosal was estimated 330 kilometers East of Casiguran, Aurora.
It has maximum sustained winds of 45 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 55 kph and moving north northeastward at 20 kph.
Mimaropa, Bicol, Calabarzon and Western Visayas regions as well as the provinces of Aurora and Isasbela will cloudy skies with scattered rain shows and thunderstorms due to Rosal and shearline.
Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms due to trough of Rosal and localized thunderstorms.
PAGASA warned that possible flash floods or landslide may occur due to moderate to heave with a times intense rains.
In the next 24 hours, PAGASA said the surge of the northeast monsoon partly enhanced by Rosal may bring occasional gusts reaching gale-force over Batanes and Babuyan Islands, and strong breeze to near-gale strength over the Ilocos Norte, the northern and eastern portions of Cagayan, the eastern portion of Isabela, Calaguas Islands and the extreme northern portion of Catanduanes.
The weather bureau said the tropical depression is forecast to move generally northeastward Sunday through Monday morning before turning east southeastward.
“In the near term, Rosal may still intensify into a low-end tropical storm within the next 36 hours. However, increasingly unfavorable conditions associated within the monsoon surge by late Monday or early Tuesday will result in a weakening trend. Rosal may become a post-tropical low embedded along the leading edge of the monsoon surge by Wednesday,” PAGASA added.
The temperature ranges between 24.9 °C and 30.4 °C. (PNA) – gb
