MANILA, Philippines – Temperatures may continue to drop in the coming days due to the prevailing northeast monsoon or “hanging amihan.”
Gladys Saludes, weather forecaster of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, told INQUIRER.net that the peak of northeast monsoon usually occurs in January or February.
In Metro Manila, temperature as low as 19 degrees Celsius could be expected.
The lowest temperature in Metro Manila this northeast monsoon season was recorded last December 25 at 19 degrees Celsius.
Last Jan. 3 and 4, a temperature of 19.5 degrees Celsius was recorded in Metro Manila. The average lowest temperature this season is at 20.4 degrees Celsius, Saludes said.
Based on the extended weather outlook, the range of temperature in Metro Manila will be from 21 degrees to 31 degrees Celsius.
The northeast monsoon is expected to last until the first or second week of March.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Metro Manila was at 14. 9 degrees Celsius on March 1, 1963.
In Baguio City, the lowest temperature this season was recorded at 11 degrees Celsius last Jan. 3.
Temperature this week in Baguio City would range from 12 degrees to 13 degrees Celsius.
For the first month of 2015, Saludes said that there is zero to one chance of a tropical cyclone to hit the country.