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MANILA -- Rains will fall in Mindanao due to an inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) while Luzon will still experience hot weather, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Thursday. Aldczar Aurelio, weather forecaster, said that ridge of high pressure area which brings warm weather is extending across Luzon which includes Metro Manila while ITCZ affects the Mindanao area. Aurelio said the temperature expected in Metro Manila is 24-35 degrees Celsius for Thursday. In its advisory, PAGASA said Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms and the rest of the country will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening. Light to moderate winds blowing from the south to southwest will prevail over northern Luzon and coming from the east to southeast over Visayas and the Luzon becoming light easterly and variable over Mindanao, it added. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be slight to moderate. Aurelio said that despite the isolated rain showers in some parts of Metro Manila on Wednesday afternoon, the temperature recorded in the metropolis was at 35 degrees Celsius. Elsewhere in Luzon, the highest temperature recorded on Wednesday was 38 degrees Celsius in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija. This compared with 37.5 degrees Celsius in Tuguegarao City in Cagayan while 34.5 in Dagupan City, Pangasinan; 33.9 in and 29.9 in Clark, Pampanga and 33.2 in Subic, Zambales. In the Visayas, Mactan in Cebu recorded 32.5 degrees Celsius, while General Santos City in Mindanao had 33 degrees Celsius. Clark has so far recorded this year's highest temperature of 38.4 degrees Celsius on April 13. Meanwhile, Elmer Caringal, state hydrologist from PAGASA said Angat dam, the main facility supplying water to Metro Manila households and businesses, assured that there is enough water in the reservoir despite the absence of heavy rains. Angat dam is a multi-purpose reservoir that provides 97 percent of Metro Manila's water supply, as well as water for irrigation and electricity-generation.
He also said the other dams like Magat, Pantabangan, Ambuklao and Binga are all in normal level but San Roque dam went below on rule card.
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