Typhoon “Dindo” (international name “Lionrock”) is moving farther away from the country but will continue to enhance the southwest monsoon or “habagat” that will bring monsoon rains over Metro Manila and most parts of Luzon this week.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) estimated the location of Dindo at 1,230 kilometers (km) east-northeast of Itbayat, Batanes, before noon yesterday. It is packing maximum sustained winds of 160 kilometers per hour (kph) and gustiness of up to 195 kph. Should it maintain its current speed and direction of 15 kph east-northeast, Dindo will be outside the country’s area of responsibility by early today.

PAGASA said the enhanced southwest monsoon will bring habagat rains over Metro Manila, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan, Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Mountain Province, Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, Zambales, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon, and Palawan this Sunday.

Cloudy skies with light to moderate rains and thunderstorms will prevail over the rest of Luzon, while partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorm is expected over the rest of the country.

By Monday until Tuesday, light to moderate rains and isolated thunderstorms will be experienced over Northern Luzon and the western section of Central Luzon due to southwest monsoon.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy skies in the morning and becoming cloudy in the afternoon with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.

By Wednesday until Thursday, PAGASA said there is a possible formation of a low pressure area (LPA) over the Pacific Ocean.

The LPA may enhance the southwest monsoon, which will bring moderate to occasionally heavy rains and isolated thunderstorms over Northern Luzon.

Light to moderate rains is expected over the western section of Central Luzon, while Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies apart from isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.

By Friday, the southwest monsoon will bring moderate to occasionally heavy rains and isolated thunderstorms over Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan, Zambales, and Bataan.

Cloudy skies and light to moderate rains and isolated thunderstorms will be experienced over Metro Manila, Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Mountain Province, Palawan, Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Cavite, and Batangas.

The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.

Source:
courtesy of MANILA BULLETIN

by Ellalyn De Vera

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