PAGASA Says Habagat to Affect PH Weather Condition
PAGASA LATEST UPDATE – The state weather bureau reported that the southwest monsoon will bring rains over parts of the country.
On Friday (August 1, 2025), the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration released the latest weather update in the country. The southwest monsoon will affect the country’s weather conditions.
PAGASA weather specialist Loriedin De la Cruz-Galicia southwest monsoon will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains over Luzon and Visayas.
The southwest monsoon will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms over Ilocos Region, Batanes, Babuyan Islands, Abra, Benguet, and Zambales.
Habagat will bring partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms over Metro Manila, the rest of Luzon, and Visayas.
The localized thunderstorms will bring similar weather conditions over Mindanao.
A low-pressure area was spotted 1,060 kilometers east-northeast of Extreme Northern Luzon. Currently, the LPA has no direct effect on any part of the country.
“This is far from our landmass, although it is on the boundary or close to our area of responsibility now,” Galicia said.
The LPA may become a tropical depression within the next 24 hours.
“It is possible that it will briefly enter PAR and then exit toward the northeast, moving away from our area of responsibility,” Galicia explained.
It will be named “Fabian” once it becomes a cyclone and enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility. Fabian may become the first cyclone of August and the sixth for 2025.
The weather agency has advised the residents in the affected areas to take precautionary measures for possible flash floods or landslides due to moderate to at times heavy rains and severe thunderstorms.
Meanwhile, the coastal water condition over extreme Northern Luzon and the western section of Luzon will be moderate to rough. The remaining parts of the country will have slight to moderate surrounding sea conditions, according to PAGASA.
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