MANILA, Philippines — A rainy New Year’s Eve will prevail in some parts of the country due to shear line, northeast monsoon or “amihan” and the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the state weather bureau said on Saturday.
Weather specialist Benison Estareja said in the 4 a.m. weather forecast of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) that the shear line will bring moderate to heavy rains to some parts of Luzon.
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Article continues after this advertisement“Pagsapit ng huling dalawang araw ng 2024, makakaasa po tayo ng pag-ulan,” Estareja said.
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Article continues after this advertisement“Moderate to heavy rains pa rin po ang mararanasan sa may Cagayan Valley, Aurora, Quezon, Camarines Norte, Oriental Mindoro and Marinduque dahil pa rin sa epekto ng shear line,” he noted.
Ajay Banga spoke to Agence France-Presse at the development lender’s headquarters in Washington ahead of the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, which begin on Monday, October 21.
This was the remark of Kristalina Georgieva, who has just started her second five-year term as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Thursday, before the IMF and the World Bank’s annual gathering of financial leaders in Washington next week.
(Moderate to heavy rains will prevail in Cagayan Valley, Aurora, Quezon, Camarines Norte, Oriental Mindoro and Marinduque due to the effects of shear line.)
Article continues after this advertisementThe rest of the northern and Central Luzon will experience chances of light rains due to the northeast monsoon.
“Sa natitirang bahagi ng bansa, kabilang ang Metro Manila, steadily bahagyang maulap hanggang maulap na kalangitan na sinasamahan ng pulo-pulong pag-ulan o pagkidlat at pagkulog,” Estareja added.
(The rest of the country, including Metro Manila, will steadily experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms.)
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Meanwhile, scattered rains and thunderstorms will prevail in most parts of Mindanao and Eastern Visayas due to ITCZ, or the merging of winds from the northern and southern hemispheres.
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However, Estareja noted: “Di po siya tuloy-tuloy na pag-ulan pero minsan, malalakas po yan kaya mag-ingat pa rin po sa banta ng pag-ulan at pagguho ng lupa.”
(The rain will not be continuoushappy day, but sometimes, it will be heavy so beware of possibilities of flooding and landslides.)
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