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The low-pressure area outside of the Philippines has intensified into a tropical depression and the Philippine area of responsibility over the weekend, the weather bureau said Thursday.
Weather specialist Ariel Rojas said the tropical cyclone was expected to enter the PAR on Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
The tropical depression, which will take the name "Samuel" when it enters PAR, was last spotted 2,715 kilometers east of Mindanao.
It was packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour (kph) near the center and up to 60 kph. It was moving westward at 20 kph.
The tropical cyclone will likely affect the eastern part of the Visayas or Mindanao.
370 kilometers southeast of Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. It is not expected to intensify into a storm, Rojas said.
The Palawan, the Visayas, Northern Mindanao, Caraga, Zamboanga Peninsula, Basilan Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.
Batanes and the Babuyan Islands will also have cloudy skies with light rain to the northeast monsoon.
Metro Manila, the Cordillera and Ilocos Regions, and the rest of the country will have weather, Pagasa said. / cbb
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