Monday, August 20, 2018

WEATHER-WEATHER LANG

We only say "it's raining cats and dogs" if wind (dogs) comes with the heavy rain (cats).

Last Friday, a lot of cats falling from heaven must have caused the gridlock at the Valdefuente Bridge and at Mega-Shell Crossing that made traffic crawl all the way to the Silver Anniversary celebration of Nueva Ecija Court No. 31.


Monsoon is a weather pattern and in the Philippines, the summer monsoon is called Habagat and the winter monsoon Amihan. 

The definition of monsoon evolved through the years to mean "heavy and short-term local rains" which is incorrect since that is only true for the Habagat season between May to October but not for Amihan which is mostly dry season between November to April.

It was mostly Amihan weather during our last Official District Visit to our home Court on Saturday morning but late afternoons and evenings are ruled by Habagat which came pouring after our Scottish Rite meeting that I presided for the first time.  


And what the hell is Ernie Baron's Inter-tropical Convergence Zone?

According to the worlwide web, the ITCZ "is a belt of low pressure which circles the Earth generally near the equator where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together. It is characterised by convective activity which generates often vigorous thunderstorms over large areas".

In other words, ITCZ is the intermittent soft rains that failed to deter my longs rides to the Rizal monuments in San Jose City and Lupao, the dark overcast sky as I am being nuked and electrocuted, and the downpour that chilled a case of Red Horse Extra Beer which I killed with my neighbors.


August is the peak of the Habagat season but the wet weather and lousy pizza that came with a super sweet lemonade concentrate failed to dampen the smiles that radiated on Sunday evening...

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