Trough of Severe Tropical Storm outside PAR to bring rains over Visayas, Mindanao - GMA Network
The trough of Severe Tropical Storm Choi-Wan, which is outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), will bring cloudy skies with scattered rain showers over Visayas and Mindanao on Friday, PAGASA reported.
The tropical cyclone outside the PAR, Severe Tropical Storm Choi-Wan, is located 2,495 kilometers east of Northern Luzon, packing maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour near the center, gustiness of up to 115 km/h, and moving in the west northwest direction at the speed of 10 km/h.
Mindanao, Western Visayas, Negros Island Region, and Central Visayas will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms due to the trough of Choi-Wan with flash floods or landslides occurring due to moderate to at times heavy rains.
The rest of Visayas will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms due to the trough of Choi-Wan and flash floods or landslides may occur during severe thunderstorms.
Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms due to localized thunderstorms and flash floods or landslides may occur during severe thunderstorms.
The wind speed forecast for Luzon and Visayas is light to moderate and moving in the northeast to northwest direction with slight to moderate coastal waters.
Mindanao will experience light to moderate wind speed moving in the northwest to west direction while coastal waters will be slight to moderate.
Sunrise will be at 5:46 a.m., sunset at 5:45 p.m. β BAP, GMA News
