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The Philippines has a maritime tropical climate and has
two distinct seasons, rainy and dry season. The
temperature average range from 23° to 32° Celcius (73°
to 90° F) in the entire archipelago throughout the year.
The humidity varies from 75% to 85% depending on the
time of the year. The dry season is from November to
April and the Wet season is from May to October. In
Baguio (The summer Capital of the Philippines),
temperature averages 18.3°C. The season differ
throughout the islands because of the varying exposures
to the two major wind belt, monsoon or northeast trades
(winter) and southwest monsoon (summer). Because of
these wind belts that affect our climate, the east
coasts receive heavy winter rainfall and the west coasts
heavy summer rainfall. Rainfall measures from 5,000
millimeters in the mountainous east coast section of the
country, but less than 1,000 millimeters in some of the
sheltered valleys in the entire year.
The Philippine archipelago is located also in the
typhoon belt. That is why Philippines is hit by numerous
typhoon and storm starting in the month of July through
October but sometimes it extend to December. The places
that the typhoon struck are the Northern and Eastern
Luzon and the Bicol and Eastern Visayas Region. The
strength of the typhoon differ each year. An average of
25 typhoons visit the Philippines each year.
Not only typhoon, Philippines is also hit by drought
called the El Niņo. This occur from the dry season and
extend to the wet season. There is no rainfall in a long
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