PAGASA Weather Forecast for LPA, Typhoon {Cimaron} & {Soulik} as of 4:00 AM 23 August 2018.

Issued at:4:00 AM today, 23 August 2018 

SYNOPSIS:  Southwest Monsoon  affecting the western section of Luzon.  At   3:00 AM today, a Low Pressure Area (LPA) was estimated based on all available data at  305 km Northwest of Extreme Northern Luzon    (22.3 °N, 119.8 °E) [OUTSIDE PAR].   Meanwhile, the  eye of Typhoon CIMARON was located based on all available data at 1,660 km  Northeast of Extreme Northern Luzon  (28.6 °N, 135.7 °E) [OUTSIDE PAR]  with  maximum sustained winds of 160 km/h near the center  and  gustiness of up to  195 km/h.  It is moving  Northwest  at  35 km/h.   TYPHOON SOULIK LOCATION OF THE EYE (3AM): 1,415 KM NORTH NORTHEAST OF EXTREME NORTHERN LUZON (32.7 °N, 125.7 °E) [OUTSIDE PAR] MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS: 130 KM/H NEAR THE CENTER GUSTINESS: 160 KM/H   MOVEMENT:  NORTH NORTHWEST AT 20 KM/H.

 

FORECAST WEATHER CONDITIONS:

Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Zambales, Bataan, Batanes, and Babuyan Group of Islands will experience cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms due to Southwest Monsoon.  Possible flooding and landslides due to  scattered rains and thunderstorms.

Metro Manila and the rest of  the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to Localized thunderstorms.  Possible flash floods and landslides due to moderate to occasionally heavy rains or thunderstorms.

Weather information is courtesy of DOST PAGASA.