By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent
THE rising temperatures in the past few days are just a glimpse of what’s ahead with the dry season that’s yet to come. At 11 am yesterday, the temperature rose to 30.3 degrees Celsius in the city and Misamis Oriental. But that’s nothing compared to what’s coming.
The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said the dry season has not yet started.
June Frivaldo, a weather specialist at the Pagasa station in El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental, said the rising temperatures being experienced here are not due to the dry season because it has not started yet.
Frivaldo said the northeast monsoon continues to affect northern Luzon, the reason why Pagasa could not yet declare the start of the dry season even when it’s already March, a summer month.
Frivaldo said the heat being felt in northern Mindanao is an effect of the easterly winds from the Pacific Ocean.
The same kind of temperatures are expected here in the coming days.
But Frivaldo said the region could still expect light to moderate rain because of the formation of cumulonimbus clouds being pushed by winds from over the Pacific Ocean.
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