FORECAST:
Northern and Eastern Luzon will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered light rains while Eastern Visayas and Mindanao will have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms.
Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Northeast will prevail over Luzon and Visayas and coming from the East and Northeast over Eastern Mindanao and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the Northeast with slight to moderate seas.
Special Weather Outlook for the New Year Holidays
The tail-end of cold front is likely to still prevail over Visayas and Mindanao which will bring scattered rainshowers becoming widespread rains in the eastern section of these areas on Thursday and Friday (Dec. 31 and Jan. 01). However, rain activity will gradually shift towards Bicol region by Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 02 and 03). For the rest of the country, good weather condition with isolated or passing light rains is expected to persist throughout the outlook period. Cooler temperatures associated with the northeast monsoon (Amihan) will also continue to be experienced in the country especially in Luzon area.
Moderate to strong northeasterly winds will still prevail over Luzon and Visayas and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Small sea crafts and fishing vessels are advised to be alert against moderate to high waves along the seaboards of Luzon and Eastern Visayas generated by the northeastely winds.
DOST-PAGASA is providing this special weather outlook to give guidance to the public in their travel plans during the peak of the new year holidays.
This outlook will be updated as soon as significant changes in the weather occur.
For more information, please contact the forecaster-on-duty in the following telephone numbers: 927-1541/927-1335/926-4258.
Courtesy of: PAGASA
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