Schools in some areas placed in-person classes under suspension after the country suffered under extreme heat in the past few days. This prompted warning for people to keep a tight rein on the amount of time spent outdoors.
The months of March, April and May are typically the hottest and driest in the archipelago, but conditions this year have been exacerbated by the El Niño weather phenomenon. The northern municipality of Aparri came under a heat index of 48C on Tuesday, the highest in the country, and was expected to hit 45C on Wednesday.“It’s really hot here,” Eric Vista of the municipal disaster agency told AFP.
Global temperatures hit record highs last year, and the United Nation’s weather and climate agency said Tuesday that Asia was warming at a particularly rapid pace.Meanwhile, the NGCP placed the Luzon grid on red alert from 3PM to 4PM and yellow alert from 1PM to 3PM and 4PM to 10PM.The NGCP said four plants have been on forced outage since 2023, four between January and March 2024, and 12 since April 2024. Two are running on derated capacities, for a total of 1,840.3MW unavailable to the grid.
Meralco added that if necessary, it is ready to implement MLD as part of its responsibility to manage the system.
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