Cold front to bring cloudy skies, more rain in last days of summer
By DJ Yap
The tips of a cold front originating from China will bring cloudy skies and light rains to Northern Luzon, the state weather bureau said on Thursday.
The tips of a cold front originating from China will bring cloudy skies and light rains to Northern Luzon, the state weather bureau said on Thursday.
Tropical depression “Crising” maintained its strength as it moved towards southern Palawan and is seen to exit the Philippine territory by Thursday evening, the state weather bureau said.
A new low pressure area was spotted in General Santos City Tuesday afternoon, the state weather bureau said.
The government has set aside some P42 million in standby fund and relief goods for provinces in the path of typhoon “Pablo’’ in Visayas and Mindanao, Malacañang officials said on Monday.
Three to five more tropical cyclones are expected to arrive in the Philippines in the last two months of 2012, but there’s less chance of storms in the first quarter of next year, according to the state weather bureau.
It’s “dam if you do, dam if you don’t.” The extreme weather has put dam operators in a bind. If they release too much water, communities downstream would be inundated; if too little, the dams may break.
Luzon will mostly have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers due to an intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the state weather bureau said Wednesday.
Residents in Metro Manila were alerted against flooding as the state weather bureau raised green warning Monday afternoon.
Typhoon Gener, expected to be out of the Philippine area of responsibility by Thursday afternoon, has slightly intensified as it continued to head towards Taiwan, the state weather bureau said Wednesday.
Typhoon “Gener” is forecast to leave the Philippine territory by Thursday, but expect gloomy weather in Luzon, including Metro Manila, the weather bureau said on Tuesday.
A tropical depression was seen off Basco, Batanes, Monday, but will stay only for a few hours and will not make landfall, the state weather bureau said.
More rains are seen in the country in the next few days as a low pressure area that formed near Eastern Visayas was expected to become the fourth tropical cyclone for the country this year, the state weather bureau said Monday.
Tropical storm “Talim” induced monsoon rains over Luzon, but was forecast to skirt the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) and strike Taiwan instead.
