by magnolia_eic | Feb 15, 2011 | Headlines, National News, Weather Coverage
THE state weather bureau suggested that Filipinos enjoy the cool weather this month while it
lasts as higher temperatures are expected by March.
Robert Sawi, weather branch chief of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and
Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), said the northeast monsoon – the system
that brings rain and cool weather to the country – is expected to end this February.
Sawi said the public can expect gradually increasing temperatures in the coming days.
Sawi, meanwhile, said Pagasa expects a normal onset of the summer season for the areas
under Type I climate which includes Metro Manila Ilocos Region, western part of Mountain
Province, western part of Nueva Ecija, Central Luzon, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Tarlac,
Pampanga, Bulacan, Bataan, Zambales, Occidental Mindoro, southern parts of Antique and
Iloilo, northwestern part of Palawan, and the southern parts of Negros Oriental and Negros
Occidental.
Areas under Type I climate have two pronounced seasons – dry from November to April and
wet during the rest of the year. Its maximum rain period is from June to September.
Although there will be rains during the dry season due to lingering La Nina phenomenon, high
temperatures are still expected during summer, Sawi said. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Jan 28, 2011 | Headlines, Weather Coverage
Synopsis:
Northeast monsoon prevailing over Luzon. Wind convergence affecting Visayas and Mindanao.
Forecast:
Southern Luzon will have mostly cloudy skies with rains. The rest of Luzon will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with light rains. Visayas and Mindanao will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming widespread rains over Eastern Visayas and Northeastern Mindanao which may trigger flashfloods and landslides.
Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Northeast will prevail over Luzon and from the Northeast and East over Visayas and Eastern Mindanao and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the Northeast and East with slight to moderate seas.
by magnolia_eic | Jan 21, 2011 | Headlines, National News, Weather Coverage
Filipinos can expect a short and wet summer this year due to the heavy rains to be brought by the La Niña weather phenomenon, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Monday.
PAGASA officer-in-charge Graciano Yumul Jr. said Monday the “dry” part of summer is likely to last between April and the first half of May only.
After the summer, he said the public may have to brace for cyclones that he said may be intense.
La Niña is a weather phenomenon characterized by heavy rains and lower temperatures.
PAGASA earlier said it expects 20 to 22 cyclones to hit the country this year.
Yumul appealed anew to the public to help protect PAGASA’s weather detection and monitoring equipment, following the recent theft of such items in Pangasinan.
He made the appeal even as he said PAGASA hopes to complete the installation of seven Doppler radars nationwide this year. (PIA/PAGASA)
by magnolia_eic | Jan 7, 2011 | Headlines, National News, Weather Coverage
President Benigno S. Aquino III on Tuesday ordered the National Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Council (NDRRMC) to conduct a thorough review of the country’s disaster
risk reduction measures to minimize loss of lives during calamities especially in communities.
The President issued the directive to NDRRMC head and Defense Secretary Voltaire
Gazmin following reports of casualties in Southern Luzon, Bicol region, Eastern Visayas and
Mindanao due to floods and landslides last month.
The President noted that in spite of his earlier directive for concerned agencies to evacuate
residents in risk areas, there were still casualties.
“Today , I asked the Secretary of National Defense, being the head of the NDRRMC, to find
out exactly why there were two people who died in the same place, “ he said referring to St.
Bernard in Southern Leyte , where over a thousand residents died when flashfloods hit the
community in 2006. The recent heavy downpour also caused floods and landslides in the
area and claimed at least two lives.
The NDRRMC said at least 37,124 families or 197,641 people from 242 barangays in 39
towns in 10 provinces had been affected. (PIA/PCOO)
by magnolia_eic | Dec 29, 2010 | Headlines, National News, Weather Coverage
MANILA, Philippines – Scattered rain showers may dampen the New Year celebration in some parts of the country, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said today.
Pagasa weather branch chief Robert Sawi said the northeasterly wind would continue to bring mostly cloudy skies with scattered rains over the eastern sections of Luzon and Visayas starting Wednesday until Saturday, New Year’s Day.
Sawi said the rest of the country, including Metro Manila, would experience cloudy skies with light rains because of the northeast monsoon.
Meanwhile, for the next 24 hours, Pagasa said Luzon would experience mostly cloudy skies with light rains Visayas, on the other hand, would be mostly cloudy with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms, becoming cloudy with widespread rains over eastern Visayas which may trigger flasfloods and landslides.
Mindanao would have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms. Pagasa also said moderate to rough seas would prevail over Luzon and the Visayas.
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by magnolia_eic | Oct 29, 2010 | Headlines, Weather Coverage
Tropical Storm Katring (international name Chaba) has intensified into a typhoon Tuesday
morning but state weather forecasters said it remained too far to affect any part of the
country.
In its 11 a.m. advisory, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services
Administration (PAGASA) said Katring continued to move north northwest direction, packing
maximum winds of 120 kilometers per hour with gustiness of up to 150 kph.
PAGASA said Katring was located 700 km east southeast of extreme northern Luzon as of
10 a.m.
The weather bureau said Katring was is expected to be 670 km northeast of extreme
Northern Luzon Thursday morning, and 910 km northeast of extreme Northern Luzon Friday
morning.
PAGASA did not raise any storm signals as Katring is still too far to affect any part of the
country. (PIA)
