Metro's temperature drops further to 18ºC

The country’s weather bureau has recorded early yesterday morning the lowest temperature in Metro Manila since the start of the holiday season this year, but it also observed the increased temperature in Baguio City.

Alzar Aurelio, weather observer of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), said the Science Garden located in Diliman, Quezon City recorded the further dropping of temperature in the National Capital Region from 18.2 degrees Celsius last Dec. 18 to 18 degrees Celsius at 2 a.m. yesterday.

This is not the case in Baguio City, dubbed as the Summer Capital of the Philippines, where the temperature went two notches higher from its record 9.8 degrees Celsius in Dec. 18 to 11.2 degrees Celsius early yesterday morning.

Pagasa weather branch chief Nathaniel Cruz said there was an opposite movement of the temperature in Manila and Baguio but, “there was nothing extraordinary about it and several factors may have contributed to this development.”

At present, Pagasa could not yet determine the factors, but it was possible that the clouds might have caused it.

Cruz said there could have been cloud formations in Baguio City that may have blocked the radiation from exiting to the sky, thus increasing the temperature.