The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Monday afternoon, Nov. 29, continued to monitor a low pressure area off Visayas, which may become a tropical depression within 36 hours.

Weather specialist Grace Castañeda said the LPA was estimated 1,745 kilometers east of Visayas, or outside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR), as of 3 p.m., Monday.

Castañeda noted that the PAGASA is not ruling out the possibility that the LPA may intensify into a tropical depression within the next 36 hours.

Likewise, she said PAGASA is not discounting the weather disturbance's possible entry into the country's area of responsibility in the coming days, and that if it enters the PAR as a tropical depression, it will be given a local name "Odette."

Based on the agency's current analysis, the LPA will likely move west-northwestward until Wednesday morning, Dec. 1, then northward by Wednesday afternoon.

Castañeda said the weather disturbance will be closest to the country's landmass by Wednesday or Thursday, Dec. 2, wherein its trough or extension may bring rains over Eastern Visayas.

She advised the public to continue to monitor PAGASA's updates regarding this weather disturbance.

Meanwhile, the shear line, also known as the tail-end of the frontal system, still prevails over the extreme portion of northern Luzon.

In the next 24 hours, the shear line is expected to bring cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms over Batanes and Cagayan.

Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers due to localized thunderstorms.

The public should remain vigilant as PAGASA warned that severe thunderstorm activities may sometimes trigger flash floods or landslides.