Mercury drops to 11.4 degrees Celsius in Baguio City

Cold weather has sustained Baguio tourism for more than a century, but tourists are discovering other cool areas among the summer capital’s Benguet neighbors. The vegetable gardens of Atok town draws tourists because the much higher municipality can get much colder. INQUIRER PHOTO/ Allan Macatuno

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines –Tourists and residents in the summer capital woke up shivering on Saturday (Jan. 4) with the temperature dropping to 11.4 degrees Celsius, making it the coldest day at the start of 2020.

The mercury drop was recorded at 5 a.m. by the weather bureau’s Baguio synoptic station.

The nippy weather is caused by cold wind brought by the northeast monsoon or “amihan” which normally peaks from January to February.

Edited by MUF