Skies will be gloomy, but it’s still summer
By DJ Yap
The skies are likely to remain gloomy in the next few days after rains soaked Election Day in many parts of Luzon and Mindanao, according to the weather bureau.

The skies are likely to remain gloomy in the next few days after rains soaked Election Day in many parts of Luzon and Mindanao, according to the weather bureau.

A diffused tail-end of a cold front affecting extreme Northern Luzon will bring rains in Cagayan Valley but hot weather will continue in other parts of Luzon, the state weather bureau said Friday.

Warm weather will likely continue even as the whole country will have partly cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly over the eastern section due to easterlies, the state weather bureau said Thursday.

Warm weather will prevail even as the whole country will have partly cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly over the eastern section due to easterlies, the state weather bureau said Tuesday.

Metro Manila sizzled at 36.6 degrees Celsius Friday afternoon, the hottest day in the capital so far, but there’s no heat wave yet, the state weather bureau said.

A region endowed with natural resources a stone’s throw away south of the nation’s capital could be Calabarzon’s (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) best draw for foreign and local tourists.

The temperature in Metro Manila soared to a new high in 2013, hitting 35.5 degrees Celsius in the afternoon of Tuesday and would likely go higher, the state weather bureau said.
Bad news for young residents of Navotas City hoping to get circumcised or join the city’s youth programs.

A relative of Mayor Jerome Alcantara of Donsol said Friday the cause of his death was a heart attack and not heat stroke as what was reported by the police in Donsol.
There were a couple of memory songs about “a hot time tonight,” referring to good times with friends and family, particularly in “Summer time… when the livin’ is easy.” But those belong to the “good old days,” when living was truly easy. However, in this fast-moving modern day and age, memories continue to keep us grounded.

The next time you see a traffic constable leaving his post by the side of the road, don’t be too quick to accuse of him of deserting his station. He may just be taking a “heat stroke break.”
THE scattered rainshowers and cloudy skies experienced in Cebu in the past two days doesn’t signal the end of summer, the Mactan office of the state weather bureau Pagasa said yesterday.
Summer continued to sizzle in Metro Manila and most other parts of the country, as the nation’s capital recorded its hottest temperature so far on Wednesday afternoon at 35.2 degrees Celsius, the state weather bureau said.