Weather Today – January 3, 2019

Northeast Monsoon affecting Luzon and Visayas. This weather system will bring cloudy skies with only light rains over Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region, Aurora and Quezon. Generally fair weather with only partly cloudy to cloudy skies and isolated light rains is expected over Metro Manila, Visayas, and the rest of Luzon. Meanwhile, fair weather condition with only partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers will be experienced over Mindanao.

As the Norhteast Monsoon strengthens and affects the whole area of Luzon and Visayas, sea condition is also affected from this weather system. With this, gale warning is raised over the Easter seaboards of Northern and Central Luzon, Eastern seaboards of Southern Luzon and of Visayas, and Eastern seaboard of Mindanao. Fishing boats and other small seacrafts are advised not to venture out into the sea due to the rough up to very rough sea condition.

According to PAGASA Weather Forecaster Ariel Rojas, there is no weather disturbance being monitored outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR). But this January there is 0 to 1 possible number of tropical cyclone that may enter PAR or develop into a Typhoon.