Habagat brings rains across PH; LPA may become tropical depression

Scattered rains are expected across the Philippines on Friday due to the prevailing Southwest Monsoon or Habagat.

A Low Pressure Area (LPA) outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) has a high chance of becoming a tropical depression within 24 hours, while another LPA, a remnant of Tropical Depression DANAS, remains outside PAR and is unlikely to redevelop.

Western Visayas, Negros Island Region, Palawan, and Occidental Mindoro will experience occasional rains with risks of flash floods or landslides from moderate to heavy rainfall.

Metro Manila, Mindanao, other parts of Visayas, Batanes, Babuyan Islands, Zambales, Bataan, Cavite, and Batangas can anticipate cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms, also carrying the threat of flash floods or landslides.

The remaining areas of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms, with severe thunderstorms posing a risk for flash floods or landslides.

Coastal waters in northern and western Luzon will be moderate to rough due to moderate to strong southwest to south winds.