The southwest monsoon or Habagat will bring cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms over parts of the western sections of Luzon and Visayas on Thursday, PAGASA reported. Metro Manila, Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Zambales, Bataan, Tarlac, Pampanga, Bulacan, CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, Western Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi will have cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the southwest monsoon with flash floods or landslides possibly occurring due to moderate to at times heavy rains. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms due to localized thunderstorms with flash floods or landslides possibly occurring during severe thunderstorms.
PAGASA said the heat index in Metro Manila will be under extreme caution level at 41 degrees Celsius at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), Pasay City station and 40 degrees Celsius at the Science Garden in Quezon City. The public was advised to take precaution against heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The heat index is a measure of how hot it really feels when factoring in the relative humidity at a given location.
In order to prevent heat-related illnesses, the weather bureau advised the public to do the following: The wind speed forecast for Luzon and Visayas is light to moderate moving in the southwest to southeast direction while coastal waters will be slight to modera.
