MANILA -- The weather bureau spotted at 2:00 a.m. Monday an active low pressure area, 160 kilometers East of Northern Mindanao.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) forecasted Visayas and Mindanao to experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers.

The northeast monsoon will also affect extreme Northern Luzon with mostly cloudy skies with scattered light rains. The rest of Luzon will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rain showers.

Pagasa added that in case the active low pressure area becomes a typhoon and reach the Philippine Area of Responsibility, it would be named ‘Urduja’.(SUNNEX)