Weather Today – March 24, 2017 | Scorching Friday!

Are you feeling the heat? Here are the highest temperatures recorded by PAGASA yesterday. Note that these are air temperatures and are different from what our bodies felt. The temperature that a human body perceives depends on the humidity of a particular area at a particular time.

If the warm weather made you perspire a lot yesterday, prepare for another sweltering day ahead. Easterlies prevail as the dominant weather system, affecting the eastern section of the country. These are winds coming from the Pacific Ocean and are warm and humid in nature.

In the next hours, Metro Manila and the rest of the archipelago will have generally fair weather conditions. But despite the heat, isolated rain showers or thunderstorms are still possible mostly in the latter part of the day.

Tag-init na ba?
Despite the rising temperatures, PAGASA has yet to declare the termination of the Northeast Monsoon or the start of the Hot and Dry Season. PAGASA Weather Forecaster Gener Quitlong said there are certain requirements that need to be met first, such as the presence of a High Pressure Area in the eastern part of Japan, prevailing Easterlies, rising temperatures and frequent thunderstorms.

Did you know?
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest recorded temperature in the world reached 56.7 degrees Celsius in Death Valley, United States on July 10, 1913.

In our country, the highest on record was experienced on May 11, 1969 in Tuguegarao City where the temperature crawled up to 42.2 degrees Celsius. Quitlong said that Death Valley in U.S. and Tuguegarao City in the Philippines are of the same topography, which affects temperatures.