Cloudy skies with rain showers will prevail over parts of Luzon this weekend due to the tail-end of a cold front and the prevailing northeast monsoon or “amihan,” the State weather bureau said yesterday.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration said the tail-end of a cold front will continue to affect eastern section of Luzon, particularly Cagayan Valley and the Cordillera Administrative Region.
This will bring cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms that may trigger flash floods or landslides due to moderate to heavy rains.
Cloudy skies with light rains will be experienced over the region of Ilocos due to the northeast monsoon.
Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers from localized thunderstorms.
Due to the surge of amihan, PAGASA raised a gale warning over seaboards of Luzon.
Strong to gale force winds will affect the coasts of Batanes, Cagayan, including Babuyan Islands, and Isabela, where wave height can reach up to six meters. (Alexandria San Juan)