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Weather Today – October 25, 2017 Tropical Storm to enter PAR

The Tropical Cyclone outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) has intensified into a Tropical Storm and was given an international name “Saola”. It was last spotted at 1,405 kilometers (km) east of Southern Luzon, with maximum sustained winds of 80 kph and gustiness of 95 kph.

Moving northwest at 25 kph, PAGASA said it is expected to enter PAR within the day or tomorrow morning. Once it enters the Philippine premises, it will be given a local name “Quedan”. Though the probability for it to make landfall remains slim, its trough or extended cloudiness may still bring rains, mostly in the eastern section of Luzon and Visayas.

Today, the Intertropical Convergence Zone or the area where winds from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres meet, will continue to bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms in Palawan and Mindanao. The same weather condition is expected in Eastern Visayas due to the trough of “Saola”.

The rest of Visayas will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers, while Metro Manila and the remaining parts of the archipelago can expect generally fair weather apart from the isolated light rains.

Gale warning is hoisted in the seaboards of Northern Luzon, where rough to very rough sea condition is expected. These include Batanes, Calayan, Babuyan, Cagayan, Isabela, Ilocos provinces, La Union and Pangasinan. Sea travel is risky for fishing boats and other small seacraft.