‘Josie’ maintains strength, rainy forecast on Duterte’s 3rd SONA--Pagasa

TROPICAL depression “Josie” maintained its strength and would continue to enhance monsoon rains in Luzon, including Metro Manila until Monday, when President Rodrigo Duterte will deliver his third State of the Nation Address (SONA), the state-run weather bureau said.

According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), Josie was 170 kilometers (km) northeast of Basco, Batanes as of 11 a.m., packing winds of 60 kilometers per hour (kph) and gusts of 75 kph.