PAGASA: LPA may bring floods, landslides to VisMin

A low-pressure area northeast of Davao City may trigger flash floods and landslides in parts of Mindanao and Eastern Visayas, state weather forecasters said Saturday afternoon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the LPA was about 170 km northeast of Davao City as of 2 p.m., embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone affecting Mindanao. “Palawan, Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered [rain showers] and thunderstorms becoming cloudy with widespread rains over Mindanao and Eastern Visayas which may trigger flashfloods and landslides," it said in its 5 p.m. bulletin. It said the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the east to southeast will prevail over Luzon and its coastal waters will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the southeast to northeast with slight to moderate seas. PAGASA also said strong to gale force wind is expected to affect the Western seaboard of Northern Luzon. It advised fishing boats and other small sea crafts not to venture out into the sea, and larger sea vessels to be alert against big waves. — JE, GMA News