Let’s give credit to PAGASA

WE should thank heavens for nature’s big help in banishing air pollution over NCR. After Ruby and from my mountain-top house in Antipolo, I can see clear skylines of Manila, Makati, QC, Mandaluyong, Pasig, and as far as Alabang. We still don’t know if NCR has over 100 micrograms of particles per cubic meter of air-considered as a constant danger to health and a major cause of respiratory ailments according to the World Health Organization. We have not been informed if the national government has the facilities to measure air quality in the urban areas which needs to be published in the interest of public health.

From Walter Paul Komarnicki tions in Japan and Hawaii have all the best equipment to forecast a landfall in the eastern section of our country but PAGASA has the advantage of knowing first-hand the history of our climate since Spanish times.

The wrong critics Other agencies are highly critical of PAGASA through officials without the right credentials. Lawyers and accountants should not playfully discuss meteorology, the scientific study of atmospheric phenomena which entails the systematic study of WEATHER and its causes and provides the basis for weather forecasting. ing from northeast to southwest, can lessen the bad effect of air pollution. From March to May, a strong easterly (blowing from east to west) has the same effect as amihan in reducing air pollution. The southwest monsoon rains and wind (habagat) give a double protection against air pollution from June to October. It blows from southwest to northeast. In November and December, amihan starts blowing and last week, amihan’s cold wind tended to reduce Ruby’s wind strength and speed.