Hot and fair weather in next 2 days—Pagasa

MANILA, Philippines—The temperature on Thursday sizzled to 35.3 degrees Celsius in Quezon City, as the weather bureau forecast a fair weather for the next two days, including areas where the debris of North Korea’s rocket was projected to fall.

Forecasters of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration recorded the temperature—the hottest so far this year—at around 3 p.m. at the Science Garden in Quezon City.

It could be a preview of the generally fair weather in the archipelago from Thursday to Saturday, except for some isolated rain showers.

Partly cloudy to cloudy weather would prevail even in the eastern parts of the country where the debris of the Unha-3 rocket was projected to crash, so there won’t be any prolonged rainfall here, forecaster Aldczar Aurelio said in an interview.

If at all, there would be scattered rain showers in Mindanao arising from the intertropical convergence zone, and isolated rain showers or “localized thunderstorms’’ in parts of Luzon and Visayas, he said.

“We’ll continue to experience hot but fair weather,” he said.

Aurelio, however, pointed out that the North Korean authorities had already incorporated all the weather conditions when they plotted the area where the debris would fall.

Climatologists had said that atmospheric conditions such as wind and rain could alter the rocket’s path.

The debris was projected to crash in open sea.