It just keeps getting hotter. State weather forecasters from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) recorded on Tuesday the hottest temperature in Metro Manila this year, a GMA News report said. According to the report, the temperature in Metro Manila, particularly in Quezon City, reached 36.8 degrees Celsius at 2 p.m. Tuesday. This figure surpassed the previous hottest-day “record" of 36.1 degrees Celsius last April 6.
This page requires a higher version browser Meanwhile, a sizzling 39.5 degrees Celsius—2.5 degrees higher than the normal human body temperature—was recorded in Tuguegarao City in Cagayan province.
Tuguegarao has earned the reputation of being the country’s hottest city, where the highest temperature in the Philippines was registered on April 29, 1912. The state weather bureau had earlier warned that temperature in some parts in the country may breach the 40-degrees-Celsius mark due to the El Nino dry spell.—Andreo C. Calonzo/JV
