Pagasa: Hot, humid Holy Week

MANILA, Philippines - The state weather bureau yesterday warned Filipinos against heat stroke and other heat-related diseases as hot and humid weather would prevail over the country this Holy Week.

According to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the ridge of high-pressure area was extending over Luzon while the easterlies would prevail over the eastern sections of the Visayas and Mindanao.

The two weather systems will bring partly cloudy skies in the morning, becoming cloudy in the afternoon or evening with chances of some isolated rain showers and thunderstorms.

PAGASA said no weather disturbance is expected to affect the country until Good Friday.

Moderate to occasionally rough seas will be experienced over the eastern seaboards of the country. Elsewhere, sea conditions will be slight to moderate.

PAGASA has officially declared the start of the dry season or summer last April 5.

In Metro Manila, the temperature hit 35.2 degrees Celsius at 1:50 p.m. yesterday.

PAGASA data showed that the country’s highest temperature ever was recorded in Tuguegarao City on May 11, 1969 at 42.2 degrees Celsius, while in Metro Manila the hottest was at 38.5 degrees Celsius on May 14, 1987.