PAGASA: Amihan season has started

Expect colder weather in the coming months as the Northeast Monsoon or “Amihan” season has finally arrived, the state weather bureau PAGASA announced on Tuesday.

State meteorologists said that the Northeast Monsoon will bring cold and dry air in most parts of the country.

“Over the past several days, the high pressure area over Siberia has strengthened, leading to a strong surge of northeasterly winds which is expected to affect the northern portion of Luzon beginning today and tomorrow, after the passage of Super Typhoon Pepito,” said PAGASA.

“Furthermore, successive surges of northeasterly winds are expected over the next two weeks, leading to an increase in atmospheric pressure and cooling of surface air temperature over the northern portion of Luzon,” it added. “The development of these meteorological patterns indicate the onset of the Northeast Monsoon (Amihan) season.”

PAGASA also said that the Amihan season is expected to “cause increasing prevalence of rough sea conditions, especially over the seaboards of Luzon are also expected in the coming months.”

The state weather bureau earlier explained that the delay on Amihan’s onset caused tropical cyclones to enter the northern part of the country.

The onset of the Northeast Monsoon last year was declared as early as October. — Vince Angelo Ferreras/RSJ, GMA Integrated News