STUDENTS going back to school on Monday can expect rain and cloudy skies because of a low pressure area (LPA) and intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the state-run weather bureau said on Sunday. Pagasa said that the LPA was 390 kilometers (km) east of Surigao City, Surigao del Norte as of 8 a.m., embedded along the ITCZ. The LPA is expected to bring cloudy skies with moderate to occasionally heavy rains and thunderstorms over Eastern Visayas and Caraga. The Mimaropa, Bicol Region, and rest of Visayas and Mindanao may experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms caused by the ITCZ. Meanwhile, Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers because 9f localized thunderstorms.

Source: Manila Times June 03, 2018 05:03 UTC