Pagasa establishes weather station in Ifugao university

By Dexter A. See

LAGAWE, Ifugao – Residents here are now better prepared in times of calamities following installation of an early warning device by the government’s weather bureau.

An automatic weather station (AWS) constructed by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Service Administration was opened recently to cater to needs of the community especially farmers and other agriculture and tourism stakeholders for them to be aware of the prevailing weather situation in their places and for them to be guided accordingly on what to do.

The establishment of the Pagasa-AWS at the Ifugao State University Lagawe campus is a project under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) funded by the Spanish government in coordination with the university administration.

Dr. Vicente Malano, Pagasa’s acting deputy administrator for operations and services, said the MDG project has set up a series of AWS in four project sites namely Lagawe, Albay, Sorsogon and Butuan to provide a platform for real-time data communication to the Pagasa forecast centers.