MANILA - Another tropical depression in the dry month of April is expected to enter the Philippine area of responsibility on Tuesday, state weather bureau PAGASA said.

PAGASA said the weather disturbance was located 1,345 kilometers east of Visayas at 4 a.m.

The cyclone was packing top sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour (kph) near the center and gusts of up to 65 kph.

Moving west northwest at 18 kph, the depression will be named Dante once it enters PAR, PAGASA said.

"Sa ngayon po, maliit pa ang tsansa na mag-landfall ito sa kalupaan. Inaasahan po nating magre-recurve ito papalayo ng ating bansa," PAGASA meteorologist Shiela Reyes said in a 5 a.m. weather bulletin.

(For now, it is unlikely to make landfall. We expect that it will recurve away from the country.)

Earlier this month, tropical depression "Crising" dumped heavy rains in the Visayas, leaving at least 9 people dead and a Cebu town under a state of calamity.

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