‘Quedan’ affecting the Visayas, Bicol

The outer rain bands of Tropical Storm Quedan (international name Saola) will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms over the Visayas, the Bicol region and the provinces of Aurora and Quezon, the state weather bureau said Thursday.

The storm was last spotted 1,250 km east of Casiguran, Aurora, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.

Quedan continued to track northwest at 21 kilometers per hour. It blew winds of 80 kph and gusts of up to 95 kph.

An intertropical convergence zone affecting Palawan and Mindanao will bring cloudy skies with scattered rain and thunderstorms

Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rain. /cbb