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A woman uses a fan as she stays indoors  as people try to deal with the heat as they travel in Navotas City on April 22, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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WEATHER-CLIMATE

Ariel Rojas

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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/171524326899120240422-earth-environment-heat-index-JC-1020.jpg" style="width:578px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>A woman uses a fan as she stays indoors  as people try to deal with the heat as they travel in Navotas City on April 22, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/fileMANILA — Hot and dry conditions from the weakening El Niño may still lead to 47 provinces experiencing drought this May, PAGASA said in an advisory.</div>Of these provinces, 23 are in Luzon, 15 in Visayas, and nine in Mindanao. Meanwhile, seven provinces may be under a dry spell and eight may experience dry condition.Drought happens when there is more than 60 percent reduction in rainfall for three consecutive months. Below normal rains in two consecutive months is considered dry condition and in three consecutive months a dry spell. The weather bureau still anticipates the transition from El Niño to neutral conditions this May or June. La Niña watch, however, remains in place as the likelihood of La Niña developing in the second half of the year remains at 60 percent. El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cold phases of a naturally occurring climate pattern known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). It is manifested in the changes in the sea surface temperature and wind strength and direction in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. El Niño leads to less rains and tropical cyclones and drier conditions in the Philippines while La Niña results to above normal rains, more storms, and wetter conditions. PAGASA said the combined impacts of El Niño and the dry season resulted to 46 provinces experiencing drought, 19 under dry spell, and nine experiencing dry condition this April. State of calamity has been declared in one region, seven provinces, and 36 cities and municipalities with estimated cost of damage and losses to agriculture amounting to 5.9 billion pesos, per reports from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and the Department of Agriculture. <div>RECORD-BREAKING APRIL HEAT</div> Nine PAGASA stations also broke their respective April records with new maximum temperatures logged this year: • San Jose, Occidental Mindoro: 39.2°C, April 22<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">• Clark, Pampanga: 39.1°C, April 29<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">• NAIA, Pasay City: 38.8°C, April 27<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">• Sangley Point, Cavite City: 38.7°C, April 25<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">• Science Garden, Quezon City: 38.2°C, April 27<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">• Casiguran, Aurora: 38.1°C, April 24<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">• Catbalogan City, Samar: 37.6°C, April 30<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">• Malaybalay City, Bukidnon: 37.5°C, April 25<span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline !important;--darkreader-inline-color:#bfb9b1;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#181a1b">• Maasin City, Leyte: 36.5°C, April 25The temperatures logged in Clark, Pasay, and Malaybalay are also the new all-time record for the respective stations. <div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/4/27/metro-manila-records-new-all-time-hottest-temperature-023">Metro Manila records new all-time hottest temperature</a> </div>This May, temperatures could also still soar up to 40.8°C in Northern Luzon, 38.3°C in Metro Manila and the lowlands of Mindanao, and 37.5°C in the Visayas. Below-normal rains are forecast over most parts of Luzon and Visayas while near-normal conditions will be felt in Mindanao and Northern Luzon. One or two tropical cyclones may form inside or enter the Philippine area of responsibility this month. The agency is currently monitoring a cloud cluster east of Mindanao that may develop next week into the country&#x27;s first weather disturbance this year. PAGASA also said the transition towards the southwest monsoon season may happen this May.

Hot and dry conditions from the weakening El Niño may still lead to 47 provinces experiencing drought this May, PAGASA said in an advisory.

Hot and dry conditions from the weakening El Niño may still lead to 47 provinces experiencing drought this May, PAGASA said in an advisory.

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El Niño weakens but 47 provinces may still experience drought

Ariel Rojas,

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Published May 09, 2024 04:58 PM PHT

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