LPA expected to enter PH Thursday

MT Satellite image Jan. 28, 2014, 7:32 a.m. Screengrab from https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/

MANILA, Philippines—A low pressure area over the Pacific Ocean that will bring rains to parts of Mindanao may enter the Philippine area of responsibility by Thursday, the state weather bureau said.

“The LPA will likely enter by Thursday but it has low chances of becoming a tropical cyclone,” Glaiza Escullar of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) told INQUIRER.net on Tuesday.

The LPA is forecast to bring rains to parts of Mindanao, including in Northern Mindanao which was recently affected by Tropical Depression Agaton.

Escullar did not discount the possibility that the LPA will dissipate but said the LPA forecast continued to be on track. But if ever it intensifies into a cyclone, it will be locally named “Basyang.”

The northeast monsoon continued to affect Luzon and Visayas.

The whole country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with light rains, Pagasa said.