Tropical depression Basyang enters PAR

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February 4, 2026 | 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — A tropical depression entered the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) yesterday and was named Basyang, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.

PAGASA said Basyang entered PAR at 5:30 p.m., a few minutes before it was spotted 1,075 kilometers east of northeastern Mindanao.

Basyang is the second tropical depression to enter the country this year.

Based on a weather bulletin released before Basyang entered PAR, the tropical depression was packing sustained peak winds of 55 kilometers per hour, with gustiness of up to 70 kph and moving “north-westward slowly.”

PAGASA said the trough of the tropical depression would bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms over Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas and Negros Islands Region as well as Zamboanga peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao region and Caraga.

Moderate to at times heavy rainfall spawned by the trough of Basyang may cause possible flash floods or landslides in these regions, PAGASA said.

Meanwhile, the northeast monsoon or amihan is affecting Luzon, with Batanes and Babuyan Islands having cloudy skies with rains, which may cause possible flash floods or landslides.

Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains.

In Negros Occidental, the shear line-induced rain, which displaced close to 3,000 families on Saturday, destroyed 193 houses and P6.55 million worth of crops and livestock.

The bad weather severely affected 24 barangays in the cities of Cadiz, Escalante, Sagay and Talisay as well as the towns of Calatrava, E.B. Magalona and Toboso.

A majority of the affected families have returned home, except some in Sagay City, which recorded the highest number of affected families composed of 6,803 people.

Sagay City Mayor Leo Rafael Cueva said that most of the houses remained filled with mud.

Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said the provincial government sent 600 family food packs to affected Sagay residents.

Classes in Calatrava, Escalante and Toboso remained suspended yesterday. — Gilbert Bayoran