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Searing temperatures and little rain reduced water levels of Pantabangan Lake, one of the country’s largest reservoirs.
From January through April, sweltering heat in combination with little rainfall resulted in drought conditions throughout much of the Philippines. According to the Climate Hazards Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, large parts of the country received onlyPantabangan Lake, located 25 kilometers northeast of Muñoz in Central Luzon, felt the effects of the drought. The images above show the lake on April 29, 2023 and April 15, 2024 .
The town was submerged in the 1970s, when the reservoir was built, but has rarely been accessible to people since. Parched conditions in the lake have dried up a path to the town . Marlon Paladin, an engineer with the National Irrigation Administration, told the that parts of a church and tombstones of the centuries-old town began to resurface in March after several months of “almost no rain.”
The human-made reservoir irrigates more than 1,000 square kilometers of surrounding rice fields in Central Luzon and hasfrom its normal high level of 204 meters, and 10 meters below where it was on the same date in 2022.Though the Philippines experienced elevated temperatures and little rain throughout much of the first quarter of 2024, the hottest temperatures punished the region in late April,for the highest daytime and nighttime temperatures.
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