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Possible tropical depression on New Year’s Day

Satellite image as of 11:00 AM

The cloud cluster located east of Mindanao has developed into a Low Pressure Area.

At 8:00 AM today, the LPA was located at 1,175 kilometres east of the region. In an interview with Panahon TV, PAGASA Weather Forecaster Gener Quitlong said that LPA may enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) today or tomorrow, December 31. On January 1, 2018, the LPA may develop into a tropical depression and will be named Agaton.

As an LPA or a tropical depression, the weather disturbance’s possible landfall will be on Eastern Visayas-Eastern Mindanao area between Monday afternoon or Tuesday early morning . Residents of areas mentioned are alerted for heavy to occasionally intense rains as the weather disturbance approaches landmass.

Today, Tail-end of a Cold Front and the Northeast Monsoon will dump rains to some areas. Bicol Region, Eastern and Central Visayas and Caraga will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms, making flash floods and landslides possible. In Cagayan Valley, Cordillera, Aurora and Quezon, cloudy skies with scattered rains will be experienced. Over Metro Manila, Ilocos Region, the rest of Central Luzon and the rest of CALABARZON, partly cloudy to cloudy skies will dominate with isolated rains. In the rest of the country, partly cloudy to cloudy skies will be experienced only with isolated rain showers.