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Showing posts with label El Nino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label El Nino. Show all posts

Friday, February 22, 2019

Weak El Nino is here - Pagasa

By H. MARCOS C. MORDENO


A rice field in Tamontaka, Cotabato cracks up due to the El Nino phenomenon. MindaNews file photo by Ferdinandh Cabrera

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 February) – A weak El Niño is present in the tropical Pacific and will likely continue until the second quarter of this year, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said in an advisory on Wednesday.

Pagasa said the weather system may cause varying impacts such as warmer than average surface temperatures and a prolonged dry season.

The weather bureau predicted “generally way below to below normal rainfall conditions over most parts of the country except for southern Mindanao and Surigao del Sur where near normal is likely” in March.

In April, there will be “generally below normal rainfall conditions in Luzon and the Visayas while near normal mostly in Mindanao,” it said.

Generally below normal rainfall conditions in most parts of southern Luzon and the Visayas while near normal conditions in most parts of northern Luzon and Mindanao are expected in May.

In June, most parts of the Visayas and Mindanao are expected to have near normal rainfall conditions, but most parts of Luzon (except the eastern sections) will experience below normal rainfall conditions.

The varying rainfall conditions across the country from March to June will determine which provinces in the country will be hit by dry season, dry spell and drought.

In March, a dry season will affect 22 provinces including nine in Mindanao (Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Oriental, Compostela Valley, Agusan del Sur, Basilan and Lanao del Sur). No provinces will be hit by dry season from April to June.

Also in March, a dry spell will hit the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte, Misamis Occidental, Dinagat Islands, Surigao del Norte and Tawi-Tawi, as well as 26 provinces in Luzon (including Metro Manila) and 10 others in the Visayas. The dry spell will continue to affect Misamis Occidental and Surigao del Norte, and spread to the provinces of Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte and Dinagat Islands in April.

In May, only Camiguin will experience dry spell in Mindanao along with Rizal province in Luzon and Negros Oriental, Cebu, Siquijor and Southern Leyte in the Visayas. The weather phenomenon will persist until June in Rizal.

Drought will hit five provinces in Luzon and four others in Mindanao (Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Maguindanao and Sulu) in March. It will no longer be felt in Zamboanga del Sur and Maguindanao in April but will continue in Sulu and Zamboanga Sibugay and affect Tawi-Tawi and Zamboanga del Norte, too.

Drought will hit 17 provinces in Luzon and Aklan in the Visayas in April.

In May, only Misamis Occidental and Dinagat will experience drought. However, it will affect 21 provinces in Luzon and 10 others in the Visayas.

Drought will hit fewer provinces in June – 13 in Luzon, five in the Visayas and one in Mindanao (Dinagat).

Pagasa defined drought as three consecutive months of way below normal rainfall (60 percent reduction from average) or five consecutive months of below normal rainfall condition (21 percent to 60 percent reduction from average).

Dry spell means three consecutive months of below normal rainfall (21 percent to 60 percent reduction from average) or two months of consecutive way below normal rainfall (more than 60 percent reduction from average).

Dry condition is defined as having two consecutive months of below normal rainfall (21-60 percent drop in average rainfall).

Foreign weather agencies gave varying predictions on the length of the El Niño.

The Tokyo Climate Center said the El Niño conditions “are likely (70%) to continue until August 2019.”

The APEC Climate Center in Busan, South Korea said “positive sea surface temperature anomalies are likely to remain across most of the tropical Pacific Ocean for February-April 2019, and become weak or return to near average for May-July 2019. (H. Marcos C. Mordeno/MindaNews)

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Sanity Lost

Sanity lost

(Re-published with friendly permission from the publisher)
EDITORIAL
Dabawenyos are not particularly in the right mood at this time so be careful when dealing with them. Some are walking around like zombies after spending hours without sleep, waiting for precious power to come back so they can finally go to sleep, if that makes sense at all. Others are in the mood to rant, and most of it directed towards the people in the power industry. The social media, especially Facebook, is filled with rants and memes making a mockery of the city’s power providers. Some even mocked the city’s “life is here” slogan with memes saying “but light is not here.” Except for lack of water, nothing can rile people the most than long hours of power interruption.
Business is seriously affected with losses estimated at millions a day. The Davao Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. has not yet made an assessment as to how much its members are losing since the rotating brownouts started several days ago. Big businesses are bound to lose big time. But then again, small businesses suffer more even if they have smaller losses because they have little capital to start with and most are operating on the red. With these long brownouts, some of these businesses can close down even before Therma South Inc. gets its act together, or even before the heavens shower us with lots of rain.
The Davao Light and Power Company asked Dabawenyos to be more patient as they only have to bear with the five-hour rotating power interruptions until April 21 when TSI 1 gets repaired. However, there is still no reason to do the rain dance and rejoice because even if the coal-fired power plant is back full operation, there will still be brownouts albeit shortened to three hours. Now people are starting to question Davao City’s claim as the best place to invest in and do business. After all, El Niño is nothing new so those in the power industry should have known how to address its effects on power generation a long time ago. While people are worried about the billions of losses in the economy, perhaps we should be more worried about people losing their sanity.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

And Here Comes the Rain...

Environment officials and experts in the Philippines have advised local governments to brace for strong storms and surging flood waters brought by the erratic La Nina weather phenomenon in the next few months, saying the signs point to a brutal rainy season. Wow, while writing this piece, it pours again and rains cats and downs here in Davao City... .

So let's expect the worst and be prepared the best we can. Here in the Philippines we will never forget the taifun "Ondoy" and many other mega storms in the past few years, which indeed had underlined the importance of disaster preparedness.

I wish and hope and pray (and not only me!) that the Philippino people and especially the local governments have now really realized that disasters and environment matters should no longer remain as abstract issues, as Neric Acosta, co-convenor of the La Nina Summit held at the Department of Agriculture stated several days ago in Manila.

La Nina is a weather phenomenon resulting from air-sea interaction that leads to colder ocean temperatures in the Pacific. We have to expect excessive monsoon rainfalls especially around September and October. 

Isn't it hurting to read the comment of Philippine Climate Change Commission Chief  Heherson Alvarez, saying the Philippines are not yet prepared for extreme weather brought by global warming!

Allow me to quote Acosta again: "If the United States has 911, we could set up a similar line!" Thanks God, in Davao City we have a 911!