I BROUGHT MY PARENTS TO PARADISE IN EL NIDO! Our Happiest Day in Philippines

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We really arrived to true Paradise in the Philippines! We visited the beautiful Nacpan beach of El Nido, Palawan and were so amazed by what we saw! The bluest waters, whitest sand and endless stretch of coconut trees. My parents were the happiest ever to finally dip into the beautiful ocean for the first time! It was also time to try some real local food that impressed us all. Plus, their first street food ever later on in El Nido Town Proper! Please SUBSCRIBE to my channel for more vlogs from the Philippines!    / susieinthephippines  

New LPA spotted east of Mindanao — Pagasa

By Arlie O. Calalo

April 7, 2023 

A new low pressure area (LPA) has been spotted outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and may enter the country over the weekend, the state-run weather agency said on Friday.

The LPA some 1, 620 kilometers east of Southern Mindanao, has a slim chance of developing into a tropical depression even if it is already inside the PAR, according to weather forecaster Benison Estareja of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa).

"By Monday, the weather disturbance will likely be over east of Mindanao before it goes to the direction of Caraga Region and by Tuesday until Thursday, this would pass through Eastern Visayas and Bicol Region until it crosses Central and Northern Luzon before it exits towards the Philippine Sea by Friday," Estareja said.

But another scenario, according to the Pagasa weatherman, is that the LPA may remain over east of Visayas over the forecast period before crossing east of Luzon from Tuesday until Thursday until it exits the PAR.

"So we'll continue monitoring the movement of this LPA outside PAR," he said.

Over the next 24 hours, the state weather bureau said the ridge or extension of the high pressure area (HPA) is affecting Northern Luzon.

"It means there would be less chance of rain showers and thunderstorms in this area, instead there would be hot and humid weather that may prevail," Estareja said.

Although there would be a generally-fair weather condition over Metro Manila and the rest of the country, Pagasa said these areas may still experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms due to the localized thunderstorms particularly during late afternoon or at night.

March heat, Antarctic ice close to records – climate agency

By Agence France-Presse

PARIS: Earth had its second-warmest March on record, with Antarctic sea ice shrinking to its second-lowest extent, the European Union's climate monitoring agency said on Thursday.

"The month was jointly the second-warmest March globally," tied with 2017, 2019 and 2020, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a report. The hottest March on record was in 2016.

The report is based on computer-generated analyses using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.

It said temperatures were above average over southern and central Europe and below average over most of northern Europe.

They were far warmer than average over much of North Africa, southwestern Russia, Asia, northeastern North America, South America including drought-stricken Argentina, Australia, and coastal Antarctica.

It was much colder than average over western and central North America.

Global warming is causing sea ice to decline and sea levels to rise, raising warnings that dangerous tipping points could be reached.

Copernicus said Antarctic sea ice extent was the second lowest for March in the 45-year satellite data record, at 28 percent below average.

It reached 3.2 million square kilometers on average, 1.2 million sq km below the 1991–2020 average for the month.

It had reached the smallest area on record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decadelong decline.

In the north, meanwhile, Arctic sea ice extent was 4 percent below average and joint fourth-lowest for March on record, though concentrations were above average in the Greenland Sea.

As temperatures rise globally because of human-caused climate change, Copernicus data show the past eight years were the eight warmest on record.

A United Nations report warned in March that those record-breaking temperatures would figure among the coolest within three or four decades as global temperatures climb, even if planet-warming emissions drop quickly.