“There will be many places that we expect to have below normal rainfall as early as August,” warned Anthony Lucero, head of the climate monitoring and weather prediction division of the government weather station.
Most places in the Philippines are expected to have‘below normal’ to‘way below normal’ rainfall due to El Nino, he said, defining this as meaning a 60 to 80 percent drop in rainfall.
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