Weather bureau PAGASA is monitoring a Low Pressure Area (LPA) located 925 kilometers east of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur.
PAGASA weather forecaster Lori dela Cruz reports, the LPA may develop into a tropical depression within the next 24 or 48 hours.
At this time, it has no direct effect on the country's weather although it is bringing cloudy skies and some scattered rains in CARAGA and Davao region.
The weather disturbance will be called Vinta once it becomes a storm.
It is expected to make landfall over Eastern Mindanao but its track may cover Leyte and Eastern Visayas.
Tail-end of a cold front is prevailing over Metro Manila and some areas in Northern Luzon and Central Luzon.
Fair weather is forecast today for the rest of the country.
Tropical depression Urduja, which left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) yesterday, killed 36 persons in Biliran alone.
52 are still missing in the island province.
