Start of hot season likely before March ends - PAGASA

Devotees hear First Friday mass kn Quiapo Church in Manila on March 7, 2025, amid high temperatures in various parts of the country.. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

David Dizon

ABS-CBN News

<p>The warm and dry season is likely to start anytime before the end of the month as northeast monsoon winds continue to weaken, weather bureau PAGASA said Tuesday.</p><p>PAGASA weather forecaster Veronica Torres said the weather bureau is likely to declare the start of hot season in the next couple of days before April.</p><p>“Sa kasalukuyan, hindi na natin ramdam ang hanging amihan sa ating bansa,” she said in a TeleRadyo Serbisyo interview.</p><p>She noted Metro Manila is likely to experience hot weather especially during the afternoons.</p><p>The Philippines’ climate is divided into two major seasons: the rainy season from June to November and the dry season from December to May. The dry season may be subdivided further into the cool dry season, from December to February; and the hot dry season, from March to May.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/weather-traffic/2025/3/10/pagasa-says-dry-season-will-not-be-as-hot-as-2024-1550">PAGASA says dry season will not be as hot as 2024</a></div><p>According to PAGASA, Davao Region, Zamboanga Peninsula, SOCCSKSARGEN, and BARMM are set to experience cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms due to the intertropical convergence zone this Tuesday.</p><p>Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms due to the easterlies.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2025/3/21/enough-water-for-irrigation-nia-assures-as-dry-season-looms-1457" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Enough water for irrigation, NIA assures as dry season looms</a></div>

<p>The warm and dry season is likely to start anytime before the end of the month as northeast monsoon winds continue to weaken, weather bureau PAGASA said Tuesday.</p>

The warm and dry season is likely to start anytime before the end of the month as northeast monsoon winds continue to weaken, weather bureau PAGASA said Tuesday.

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Start of hot season likely before March ends - PAGASA

Start of hot season likely before March ends - PAGASA

David Dizon,

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Published Mar 25, 2025 08:45 AM PHT

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