Metro Manila cools down a bit

After two days of sizzling 36.2 degrees Celsius, temperature in Metro Manila on Thursday dipped to 35.2 degrees Celsius.

Weather observers recorded 35.2°C at around 2 p.m. at the Science Garden in Quezon City, following  brief rainshowers.

As expected, Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija recorded a higher 36.6°C, and Tuguegarao in Cagayan, 36.4 °C.

The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration blamed the searing heat on the ridge of the high pressure area which kept clouds from forming in Luzon.

Pagasa forecast that the country would have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms today.

Meanwhile, La Niña has dissipated but this doesn’t signal the end of rain in any part of the archipelago, climatologists said.

With the end of La Niña, a phenomenon that has brought above-normal rainfall this month, weather systems affecting an area in a certain month were back to their old “neutral patterns,” senior weather specialist Daisy Ortega said.