Weather Today – March 9, 2015 | Good weather continues

The good weather continues in the Philippines this week.

Based on PAGASA’s latest weather forecast, the weakened northeast monsoon still only reaches the extreme Northern Luzon area.

Today, the whole archipelago will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.

Meanwhile, as we anticipate the coming of the Hot and Dry season in the country, PAGASA Weather Forecaster Gener Quitlong shares the highest temperatures ever recorded in Philippine history.

1) On May 11, 1969, Tuguegarao City peaked at 42.2 degrees Celsius.

2) In Metro Manila, 38.5 degrees Celsius was recorded making May 14, 1987 the hottest day in the metro.

The closest the records got to being broken was when Cabanatuan City experienced 40.4 degrees Celsius in the year 2002.