Easterlies bring cloudy skies, rain showers in PH, including Metro Manila
Pagasa weather satellite image as of 7:30AM, March 16, 2022.
MANILA, Philippines — Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with rain showers on Wednesday due to easterlies, the state weather bureau reported.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said that extreme northern Luzon will have moderate wind speed moving in the northeast to east while coastal waters will be moderate, with 1.2 to 2.5 meters of waves.
The rest of the country, on the other hand, is expecting a light to moderate wind speed moving in the east to northeast direction, while the sea condition will be slight to moderate with 1.2 to 2.5 meters of waves.
Pagasa warned of possible flash floods and landslides during severe thunderstorms.
“May inaasahan pa din tayong mga biglaang buhos ng ulan o isolated na pag-ulan dulot ng thundestorms sa buong bansa,” according to Aldczar Aurelio, weather specialist of Pagasa.
Article continues after this advertisement(We are also expecting sudden rain showers and isolated rains due to thunderstorms nationwide.)
Article continues after this advertisementDespite the chances of rains, the entire county will generally experience hot and humid weather, according to Aurelio.
“Ngayong araw ay mainit at maganda ang panahon sa buong bansa dahil patuloy pa din nakakaapekto ang easterlies,” he added.
(Today, the weather will be hot and fair due to the continuous effect of easterlies.)
Aurelio also said that Pagasa has not monitored any weather disturbance inside or outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility.
Meanwhile, Pagasa raised no gale warning in any seaboards nationwide.
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