Temperatures continued to drop in Baguio City in northern Philippines even as state weather forecasters said colder days lie ahead for the country’s summer capital.

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration forecaster Elvie Enriquez said that last Monday’s temperature in the city was the coldest so far this year.

“Last Monday we recorded the coldest temperature in Baguio thus far at 11 degrees Celsius. We expect it to go down further and it may reach the record low set in 1961, at 6.3 degrees,” Enriquez said in an interview on dzBB radio.

In Metro Manila, she said the coldest temperature so far this year was recorded December 3 at 19.7 degrees. The lowest temperature Monday was 20.4 degree Celsius.

The coldest in Metro Manila was recorded at 14.6 degrees in 1962, she added.

On the other hand, Pagasa’s forecast for this week indicated temperatures at Baguio City for Tuesday would range from 11 to 22 degrees Celsius.

In Metro Manila, temperatures were forecast to range between 20 and 31 degrees.

Meanwhile, Pagasa said the northeast monsoon is affecting Eastern Luzon and Eastern Visayas.

“Eastern Luzon and Eastern Visayas will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rains. The rest of Luzon and Visayas will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Mindanao will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms,” it said.

Moderate to strong winds blowing from the northeast will prevail over Luzon and Visayas, and coming from the north to northwest over Eastern Mindanao.

-gmanews