Pagasa weather update. GRAPHICS BY INQUIRER
MANILA, Philippines – The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains over Mindanao on Friday, state meteorologists said.
In its evening update on Thursday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said the ITCZ shifted slightly and would affect all of Mindanao.
“We have two weather systems affecting the country right now. First is the intertropical convergence zone that has partially shifted and is currently affecting the entirety of Mindanao,” weather specialist Chenel Dominuez said in Filipino.
“We can expect cloudy skies with scattered rains in Zamboanga Peninsula, Bangsamoro, as well as Soccsksargen, Davao Oriental, Davao del Sur, and Davao Occidental,” she added.
Meanwhile, Metro Manila and most of the country can expect fair but warm and humid weather on Friday.
“The easterlies, or warm and humid air from the Pacific Ocean, is affecting the eastern section of Luzon,” Dominguez said in Filipino.
“Because of this, we can expect Metro Manila and the rest of the country to experience fair weather. But we can also expect warm and humid weather from noon time to afternoon with high chances of rains in the afternoon to evening due to localized thunderstorms,” she added.
Pagasa maintained that it was not raising any gale warning for the country’s seaboards, nor was it seeing any low-pressure areas in the Philippine area of responsibility, but that it was monitoring a cluster of clouds just outside it.
“We have a cluster of clouds just outside the Philippine area of responsibility. We are continuously monitoring these if they’d become a low-pressure area in the coming days,” Dominguez said.