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Warm weather this year won’t hit El Niño levels - PAGASA

Warm weather this year won’t hit El Niño levels - PAGASA

David Dizon,

ABS-CBN News

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The Philippines’ warm and dry season this year will not reach record-breaking temperatures similar to the ones recorded during the strong El Nino last year, weather bureau PAGASA said Tuesday.

PAGASA climate monitoring and prediction chief Ana Liza Solis said a weaker northeast monsoon is  bringing in higher temperatures in the country but has yet to signal the start of the hot and dry season. She noted that the weaker amihan will likely prevail by the end of the week.

This year’s dry season will likely start on the third week of March, with temperatures reaching 39 degrees Celsius in Northern Luzon particularly in urban areas. 

“Masakit na sa balat kaya naghuhudyat na parating na ang hot and dry season,” Solis said in a TeleRadyo Serbisyo interview.

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“Mainit pero hindi sobrang init tulad ng nakaraang taon,” she added.

The PAGASA official said temperatures in Quezon City only reached 37-38 degrees Celsius on Monday, which is lower than the predicted 46 degrees Celsius heat index. 

The World Meteorological Organization earlier confirmed that 2024 was the warmest year on record and 1.55 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial period (1850-1900) average.

State climatologists in PAGASA reported that 2024 is also the hottest in the Philippines since monitoring started in 1951.

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