Metro Manila temperature at its hottest again on Wednesday

For the second time this week, the Philippines’ weather bureau recorded the hottest day of the year in Metro Manila on Wednesday, with a temperature once again breaching the 37-degrees-Celsius mark. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Service Administration recorded a sizzling 37.3 degrees Celsius in Metro Manila at around 3 p.m. Wednesday, the same temperature it recorded on Monday. This temperature was also recorded in Metro Manila last April 28, when the state weather bureau first recorded a temperature above 37 degrees Celsius. In Tuguegarao City in Cagayan Valley, where the country’s hottest temperature so far was recorded in 1912, temperature levels reached a scorching 37.5 degrees Celsius, Pagasa reported. Despite the burning heat, Pagasa has earlier said that rains may finally come in the next two weeks. The state weather bureau even reported scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms in the Visayas and Mindanao amid the El Nino dry spell due to an intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). - GMANews.TV