No low pressure areas being monitored on New Year’s Day

Pagasa says no low pressure areas are being monitored for potential tropical cyclone formation on the first day of 2025. —Photo the Facebook page of Pagasa

MANILA, Philippines — No low pressure areas are being monitored for potential tropical cyclone formation on the first day of 2025, according to the 4 p.m. bulletin of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa).

The state weather bureau forecast cloudy skies to prevail all over the country on New Year’s Day brought by three weather systems.

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The intertropical convergence zone will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms over the Visayas and Mindanao and the Luzon provinces of Palawan, Romblon, Catanduanes, Albay, Sorsogon, and Masbate.

Meanwhile, overcast skies with scattered rains and isolated thunderstorms due to shear line are expected in Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Isabela, Quirino, Aurora, Bulacan, and the rest of Mimaropa, and Bicol Region.

Pagasa said that the northeast monsoon, on the other hand, will cause cloudy skies with rains in Batanes, Cagayan, and Apayao.

It added that the same weather system will bring partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains over the rest of Luzon.