Cloudy skies, scattered rains to prevail in Metro, Northern Luzon—Pagasa
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 04:30:47 +0000
CLOUDY skies with scattered rains will persist in most parts of Luzon, including Metro Manila, due to a frontal system and localized thunderstorms, the weather bureau said on Friday.
The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said in its weather forecast that a frontal system would bring cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms to the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Apayao, Batanes, Cagayan including Babuyan Group of Islands.
A frontal system serves as the boundary between cold and warm air affecting temperature conditions in a certain area, the weather bureau noted.
Eastern Visayas, Palawan, and Mindoro Provinces will have cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms due to an intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ).
The frontal system and the ITCZ may bring flash floods or landslides during severe thunderstorms, Pagasa warned.
Meanwhile, Metro Manila and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to localized thunderstorms.
Rainy season expected in two weeks
Pagasa is set to declare the onset of rainy season in the Philippines in two weeks, weather forecaster Joey Figuracion confirmed with The Manila Times.
“Normally the onset of the rainy season happens until first half of June. We are currently monitoring widespread rains, although they haven’t met the criteria falling under the start of rainy season as of now,” he said.
Figuracion noted that an increase in relative humidity and rainy weather persisting for three to five consecutive days, with at least 25 millimeters (mm) of recorded rainfall amount in select observation stations, may indicate that the wet season is here.
Around five to eight tropical cyclones may also hit the country from June to August, he said.
Generally near to above normal rainfall conditions will be felt in most parts of the country in this period, but El Niño is expected to persist until the end of the year, Figuracion noted.
Pagasa officially declared the start of the rainy season on June 8 last year.
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