Extreme weather

So, the Philippines really only has two seasons. One season of the year is when it's hot and really hot. And then the second season of the year is when it's hot and rainy. And so in the hot and really hot season, it kind of is exactly how I described it, hot and then very, very hot. And you just got to get used to sweat always and drinking a lot of water and just walking in the sun. And then in the rainy season, it'll start raining really bad. In Cebu, in particular, you don't really get the... They're called bagyos, it's like a typhoon. You don't really get them as often because it's kind of in the middle of the Philippines. So, the other islands usually get it before Cebu gets it. But when it rains, sometimes it rains really hard and it'll flood up to your ankles or to your knees and you'll just come out of nowhere and just always carry umbrellas. Filipinos carry umbrellas with them everywhere. And they use it in the sun to get shade from the sun and they use it in the rain for when it rains really hard. So, it's really cool. Like, the coldest it'll ever be is probably like 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

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So if I remember correctly, there are two seasons in the Philippines. There's like hot season and then there's rainy season. So hot season lasts about four months in the year. It's super hot, super humid. You'll just be drenched in sweat. Rainy season lasts the other eight months. At any given point in time, it might start, it basically feels like it's a monsoon outside. It'll be raining so hard that even if you have an umbrella, you'll get soaked. And so be ready for that, but it's super warm all the time and the weather's really good. And so, yeah, no complaints.

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When it comes to weather in the Philippines, it's really just hot all the time. Like tag in it or the hot season is no joke. It will be so hot that you'll go outside your house and turn to lock your door and you'll already be covered in sweat. So drink a ton of water, just bring sunscreen if you need it, and every chance you get have an umbrella on you because the umbrella you're going to use for the sun 99% of the time and then sometimes for the rain. During the tagulan or rainy season, it rains in every single direction and it tends to flood, so you're gonna want to have like rubber shoes or a poncho or like just get used to being wet because you're going to be wet for like three months out of the year.

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So the Philippines is very prone to natural disasters. The craziest thing that you'll probably experience is typhoons, especially during rainy season. Rainy season is from June to about mid-October. But this past year, in 2019, we actually had a typhoon come through in, I believe it was early December. And then six weeks after that, there was actually a volcano that erupted. So there's a lot of natural disasters that happen, but Filipinos are very resilient. They know how to deal with it, and they're amazing for that.

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The craziest weather you'll experience are probably typhoons. They're just like hurricanes basically, but in the Pacific rather than the Atlantic. Most of the time they're not that bad. Every once in a while though you do get a pretty big one with pretty heavy winds and rain obviously with flooding and stuff like that. You'll learn to get wet, it just rains all the time, especially during the months of July-ish to October, November. So learn to like the rain. A couple of earthquakes, nothing too big, but enough to feel. It was cool, I'd never felt an earthquake before. But really it's just hot and humid, so get ready.

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So in the Philippines there's generally two types of weather. There's hot and dry and hot and wet. It does get really hot and usually the apartments don't have AC so you know just be prepared to be hot all the time or soaked. It did actually get kind of cold in some of the province areas like in Cagayan like the top area and also sometimes it there's typhoons that hit and there's one time that we were walking through a typhoon and the rain was literally falling sideways like this but it was pretty fun so just be kind of prepared for just kind of the extreme of both sides.

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They've got typhoons that come in, they call them buggyos, and there's a huge typhoon that came in to Iloilo. Well, it didn't really come in, it was supposed to come in, and so there was some heavy rain. It rains a lot in the Philippines, but we had to stay in the apartment for five days. But yeah, typhoons happen and they're pretty bad. There was a Yolanda that struck a few years ago in the Philippines and it just totally wrecked the island I was on, tore up people's houses. People would tell us, like, yeah, my house used to be over there, but Yolanda came, and now it's right here. And it had, like, shifted the whole house a few feet, so.

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So you might know that the Philippines has a lot of crazy weather, that they get a lot of baguio's or typhoons. When storms come they tend to hit the islands surrounding Cebu harder and then by the time that they get to Cebu they're not like as bad. I remember one time going out to work and it was just crazy raining like it was coming on so hard and I was drenched and I have this picture of me just covered in water and this little dip in the land by where we were we were in the mountains was just completely filled with water.

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It's pretty funny because like I mean, it's a jungle and so like there's a lot of rain all the time But like sometimes the rain will be coming down so hard and like it's so humid You'll be holding your umbrella and the rain will condense against the underside of your umbrella It'll be just like raining on top of you and a lot of times like when it's that bad There'll be a lot of rain So the water's coming up from from underneath you the water's coming from the sides the water's coming down on top of you and like The streets will be flooded and so you're just like walking through it So you're just like why am I holding this umbrella if it's doing nothing for me and honestly like when it gets that crazy It's honestly kind of cool. It's just fun because you're not like cold unless you're really unlucky and it's a really cold day But like I had several times where that happens to me is good

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So it rains pretty hard in the Philippines. It kind of feels like you're in the shower. It just pours down and it can start all of a sudden. And there's typhoons obviously. I'd never, well I did experience one typhoon but it wasn't huge and we were on high ground, but we did have to stay inside for a couple days while that passed. But there was actually a really big typhoon right before I came and you could totally see the devastation and the aftermath of that. And yeah, I don't know. It just rains really hard during the rainy season because it's just dirt roads everywhere. Sometimes it would get really slippery and it'd be kind of like we're mud skating as we're walking.

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The Philippines has two seasons, the wet season and the dry season. I like to call that the extremely soaked wet season and the less wet season. It rains almost every day in the Philippines. Sometimes it rains off and on, 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off, just pretty lightly, and sometimes it pours for days, even weeks straight without any stopping. It's actually really cool. So from about June to January is what I would call the wet season, and there's lots of typhoons, especially when you get into September, October-ish. Typhoons every single weekend, which can be really crazy. And then from January to June again, yeah, it still rains, but it's what they call the dry season. I was also there during what they call an El Nino, which was an exceptional dry season where there's not a lot of rain, and it was unique.