Seasons Change
“Come on over. I live just down from the Two Seasons Hotel!” “Oh, not the Four Seasons?” Mark joked. “Right, we’re in the Philippines - wet and dry - only two seasons!” We’d just met him in the bakery, and already, Ganny was showing us that Filipino warmth we’d encountered so often throughout the Philippines. As COVID-19 travel restrictions begin to ease up, we are witnessing the change of seasons here. Scorching hot days and weeks without a drop of rain have morphed into overcast days scattered with thunder showers and wild lightning storms. This change occurs due to a switch in wind patterns. Monsoon winds now blow from the Southeast, rather than from the Northeast. Roughly from June to October, the Southeast winds bring on the rainy season. Overlapping the wet season, typhoons typically show up between June and December. This wind change means two things for us… First , it means we must carefully monitor weather forecasts. If a typhoon forms, we watch its