A low pressure area (LPA) spotted east of Northern Luzon will bring scattered rains and thunderstorms in Batanes and Babuyan Islands over the weekend, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Friday.

Luzon and Visayas will experience cloudy skies and rains because of the Southwest Monsoon (Habagat), PAGASA said in its weather outlook issued on Thursday afternoon. In its 24-hour weather forecast, PAGASA said Zambales and Bataan will have monsoon rains,

Tropical Depression Gener, now outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), and Tropical Storm Helen continue to enhance the southwest monsoon or "habagat", the weather bureau said on Wednesday.

The low pressure area (LPA) east of Batanes has developed into a tropical depression and is now called Igme, according to state weather bureau PAGASA on Friday. PAGASA said on Facebook that the weather disturbance developed into a tropical depression at 2 p.

In a 10 a.m. update, PAGASA said the LPA was located 590 kilometers east of Itbayat, Batanes and moving northwest at 40 kilometers per hour. The Southwest Monsoon or Habagat and localized thunderstorms are expected to bring rains in different parts of the country on Friday,

A low pressure area (LPA) off Batanes may become a tropical depression in the coming days and will be named "Igme," the state-run weather agency said on Friday. Spotted past 3 a.m. some 745 kilometers east-southeast of Itbayat,