A bit of crazy weather

This is the time of the year were we expect to get hit by a couple of powerful typhoons. We had one supertyphoon last year (Milenyo) followed by another pretty strong one (Reming). But as there seems to be some kind of a cycle where we get lots of strong typhoons in one year and hardly any the next, we're having some crazy weather this year as a substitute for those typhoons.

Most of last week was unusually cool and rainy or else gloomy at best. Just the perfect weather that makes you want to stay in bed longer and not get up for work. In fact, I would even find our pet cats--and that stray male cat on the front door mat --sleeping in late whenever I leave for work whereas they used to be up and impatient to go outside to see me off. People at the office took to parking their cars near the building rather than at the far end of the parking lot where there are lots of trees to provide shade.

Then suddenly on Friday, the sun came out. Cars were parked under the trees once again at the office. I had to turn on the electric fan here in my room to keep cool in the evening and was considering turning on my air-conditioning as well.

When Saturday came round, the morning was sunny but the rain came pouring down again in the late afternoon. By evening, the temperatures had dropped sufficiently for me not to use my electric fan again. My poor father started getting the sniffles, a common ailment when the body is unable to cope whenever the weather turns crazy like this. (I usually get the sniffles too but I suppose my immune system is up and running on high gear nowadays given that I'm no longer suffering from as much stress during this term break.)

The cool weather continued through the whole of Sunday but gave way a to another sunny warm spell this morning. Then again that was short lived when it became cloudy this afternoon (lucky for the man we hired to mow our lawn today) and it began to rain again early this evening.

This capricious type of weather is highly unusual here where in the past, it has remained hot, or else rainy but still balmy and humid, or else cool, always for weeks at a time. Instead it's like being abroad in the temperate countries like the US or in Europe where the large variations in temperatures day to day leave you guessing what the weather will be like the next day.

This now makes me wonder what kind of weather tomorrow will bring.