CPC/IRI Releases Latest Updates About Expected El Niño
The International Research Insitute for Climate and Society (CPC-IRI) released the latest update about the expected El Niño phenomenon.
On Friday (December 14, 2018), CPC-IRI reported that there’s a 90 percent chain of El Niño prevailing during the northern hemisphere winter (December 2018 – February 2019).
The agency also said that the dry spell has a 60 percent chance of continuing into the northern hemisphere spring (March 2019 to May 2019).
The dry spell would affect the rainfall pattern over the northern Philippines starting in the first quarter of the year 2019
PAGASA’s climate monitoring and prediction section officer-in-charge Ana Liza Solis said that Filipinos in some parts of the country could expect a warmer Christmas season this year.
Solis also reported that the drier weather conditions are expected particularly in Luzon with normal rainfall in Mindanao.
By January and February next year, the dry loom would bring warmer nights in the country although those months are the coldest.
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