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Heavy rain hits Metro Manila

THE state-run weather agency said on Friday that the low pressure area (LPA) off Quezon is now affecting Metro Manila, adjoining provinces and parts of the Visayas as it enhances the southwest monsoon (habagat), bringing scattered rain showers and thunderstorms.

Forecaster Ezra Bulquerin of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) told The Manila Times that the LPA has a slim chance of developing into a tropical depression in the next 48 hours.