MANILA, Philippines - Metro Manila sizzled Tuesday afternoon with the highest temperature reading for the year at 36.1 degrees Celsius, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) reported.
The highest temperature in Metro Manila was recorded at the PAGASA Science Garden in Quezon City at 3:55 p.m. Tuesday, making it the hottest day of the year so far this year.
PAGASA said the prevailing easterly wave, a warm and moist wind from the Pacific Ocean, affects Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Last year, May 26, Metro Manila recorded the hottest day of 2010 with 38 degrees Celsius.
In its 5 a.m. bulletin Tuesday, PAGASA said the weather system will bring mostly cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms in Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Eastern and Southern Mindanao will experience cloudy skies with widespread rains, which may trigger flashfloods and landslides in these areas.
Based on PAGASA data, the hottest temperature in Philippine history was 42.2 degrees Celsius, recorded in Tuguegarao, Cagayan, on May 11, 1969.
The hottest weather in Metro Manila was 38.5 recorded on May 14, 1987.
