Pagasa: LPA off northern Luzon may become storm

A low pressure area (LPA) has formed inside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) 715 kilometers east of extreme northern Luzon and may become a storm on Saturday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said on Thursday. The LPA is currently affecting Batanes Islands as well as mainland Cagayan, causing cloudy skies with scattered rain showers. The rest of Luzon, on the other hand, will experience rains in the afternoon due to localized thunderstorms.

Also being monitored by Pagasa are another LPA outside PAR located 1,450 km east of Eastern Visayas and a tropical depression 2,645 km east of Central Luzon. Weather forecaster Chenel Dominguez said the two weather disturbances were too far away to have any effect on the country, with the LPA likely to dissipate while the tropical would not enter PAR.