ROXAS City – Heavy rains battered Sigma, Capiz at the start of the new year. Some of its barangays got flooded.
According to Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) head Judy Grace Pelaez, these villages were Purok 1, Mangoso, Acbo, and Poblacion Norte.
No casualties have so far been reported.
Sigma is a fourth-class municipality made up of 21 barangays.
According to the 2015 census, it had a population of 30,134 people.
Sigma is 28 kilometers from Roxas City, the capital of Capiz.
It had been a rainy start of 2021 in some parts of the country, particularly in the Visayas and Mindanao, due to the effects of the tail end of the frontal system, the easterlies, and the northeast monsoon or amihan, according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) on Saturday.
Based on Pagasa’s 4 a.m. public weather forecast, parts of Visayas and Mindanao would experience cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
The easterlies is affecting the eastern portion of Visayas and Mindanao, while the amihan is bringing cold weather, especially in the morning./PN
