Bring your umbrellas to your polling precincts
By DJ Yap
It might be a good idea to bring an umbrella when you go to your voting precinct on Monday, the state weather bureau said on Friday.

It might be a good idea to bring an umbrella when you go to your voting precinct on Monday, the state weather bureau said on Friday.

Expect overcast skies on Election Day on Monday in most parts of the country, but better bring an umbrella to guard against sun or rain, the state weather bureau advised on Friday.

Many parts of the country continue to experience hot weather but the good news is summer is actually about to end, the state weather bureau said.

It’s still summer but expect gloomy skies in southern Mindanao due to the effects of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) over the area, the state weather bureau said.

Five people have died and dozens of others were injured in rainstorms that hit southwest China this week, state media said on Wednesday.

Thirteen people have died and four more are missing in Saudi Arabia after downpours caused flash floods in several areas of the desert kingdom, the civil defense authorities said on Wednesday.

While temperatures have been very hot, our bodies actually feel them at much higher levels, that’s why people would be well advised to stay out of the sun in the next few days.

Northerners may get a respite from the summer heat, thanks to the tip of a cold front affecting extreme Northern Luzon, the state weather bureau said Friday.

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.
Despite scorching temperatures in Metro Manila, disease-carrying mosquitos that breed in stagnant water remain a year-round threat, with health officials recording seven deaths due to dengue out of some 2,300 cases since the start of the year.

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.