LPA brewing east of Mindanao

The weather bureau is monitoring a low pressure area east of Mindanao as of Monday afternoon that may intensify into a tropical cyclone.

In a 4 p.m. weather report on Monday, Gener Quitlong, a weather specialist of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), said the low pressure area, last estimated at 560 kilometers east of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur, was unlikely to develop into a tropical cyclone in 24 hours, but might do so in 48 hours.

Although the center of the low pressure area remains at sea and was still far from the Philippine land mass, its trough, or outer clouds, had already been bringing, and was expected to continue to bring, light to moderate rains to Mindanao, some parts of the Visayas, Mindoro and Palawan, Quitlong said.

Meanwhile, according to Pagasa’s 24-hour weather forecast, issued at 4 p.m. on Monday, the tail end of a cold front is seen to bring moderate to occasionally heavy rains to the Bicol region, eastern Visayas and the province of Quezon.

But scattered rains in the Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region and Aurora province, and isolated rains in Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon are due to the northeast monsoon.