The state weather bureau says the low pressure area off Mindanao may enter the Philippine area of responsibility this Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. (Satellite image of the Philippines from Pagasa)
MANILA, Philippines — Pagasa, the state weather bureau said the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rains this Saturday, December 16.
The Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, and Cagayan Valley, on the other hand, were forecast to experience isolated light rains due to the northeast monsoon.
According to Pagasa weather specialist Obet Badrina, the northeast monsoon is expected to intensify, so a gale warning was raised in Batanes, wherein waves may reach more than four meters high.
(We expect the continued strengthening of the northeast monsoon, so now, we have raised a gale warning, particularly along the coast of extreme northern Luzon.)
Pagasa also added that the shear line, or the convergence of cold and warm winds, may once again affect the country in the next few days as it is expected to develop due to different temperatures of the northeast monsoon and the easterlies.