{"id":50858,"date":"2015-05-31T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50858"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T02:24:14","slug":"dry-spell-to-worsen-trigger-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/31\/dry-spell-to-worsen-trigger-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry spell to worsen, trigger storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48891\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_182350160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48891\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_182350160-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_182350160-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_182350160-900x646.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_182350160.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The country&#8217;s weather bureau on Friday said that dry spell may worsen in the coming months and may trigger stronger storms.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said that this may continue the drought observed in many provinces in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau also warned that it may intensify from August to December and will cause the country to experience less rainfall than the usual in the months of rainy season.<\/p>\n<p>The dry spell is caused by the El Nino phenomenon or the warming of the ocean temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Drought or the experience of less than 60-percent of normal rainfall is observed in more than 50 provinces in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Provinces expected to suffer the lack of rain includes\u00a0Apayao, Bataan, Benguet, Bulacan, Ilocos Norte, La Union, Palawan, Pampanga, Rizal, Sarangani, South Cotabato, Tarlac and Zambales.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, seven provinces including Cebu, Marinduque, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Palawan, Biliran and Leyte\u00a0experience drought from August to December.<\/p>\n<p>The weather bureau also warned against stronger storms which may be caused by El Nino, characterized by the unusual warming of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The country&#8217;s weather bureau on Friday said that dry spell may worsen in the coming months and may &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":48891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}