Monday 12 September 2011

Weather and Climate in the Philippines


Weather and climate are two terms that differ from each other. In some books, they define weather as the present condition of the atmosphere while climate is the average of all weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.
Weather conditions vary from day today due to the constant movement of the air and moisture in the atmosphere.  During weather forecasts, we can always hear the terms fine, fair, rainy and stormy weather. Here in the Philippines, we can experience all those types of weather stated above though we those things do not happen at the same time. Every place has its own type of weather each day and it also changes from time to time.
Our weather here in our country is characterized by extremely high temperature which can be well illustrated by the fact that even during the coolest months of the year the temperature doesn't fall below 25 ° C. Another important factor that influences Weather Philippines is a high level of humidity which is again interrelated with the high temperature. The average annual humidity of Philippines remains in-between 71% to 85%. 
 
Philippines is located in between the Tropic Cancer and Capricorn. Areas within these tropics experience either tropical rainforest, tropical savanna or tropical monsoon, or humid subtropical (in higher-altitude areas) characterized by relatively high temperature, oppressive humidity and plenty of rainfall. There are four recognized climate types in the Philippines, and they are based on the distribution of rainfall. They are described as follows:
  • Type I. Two pronounced season: dry from November to April and wet during the rest of the year.
  • Type II. No dry season with a pronounced rainfall from November to January.
  • Type III. Seasons are not very pronounced, relatively dry from November to April, and wet during the rest of the year.
  • Type IV. Rainfall is more or less evenly distributed throughout the year.(Wikipedia)
Each county has its own weather and climate. There are times that these climate causes damage or gain to them but the most important is how they manage or adopt to these things for it to be useful.