Seasons
PAGASA divides the climate of the country into two main seasons--rainy and dry--with the dry season further subdivided into two:
Using temperature and rainfall as bases, the climate of the country can be divided into two major seasons: (1) the rainy season, from June to November; and (2) the dry season, from December to May. The dry season may be subdivided further into (a) the cool dry season, from December to February; and (b) the hot dry season, from March to May.
Graphically the seasons can be represented this way:
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The months of April and May, the hot and dry months when schools are on their long, between-years break, is referred to as summer while in most of the Northern Hemisphere those months are part of spring.
Read more about this topic: Climate Of The Philippines
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