Posted by Zhern
If the rains continue to fall this week we can really say goodbye to summer and the heat it brought us these past months.
The summer months were, of course, anticipated with the promise of long hours of freedom and leisure but we also longed for the rain to quench our parched lips, so to speak.
That was why the intermittent rains that fell the other day and the light showers that followed were a welcome treat to the drying grass and tree leaves.
Noting the change and the weather situation, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomic Services Administration (PAGASA), has said, "cooler days are just around the corner."
The possibility is that the onset of the rainy season may be within this week, according to PAGASA weather forecaster Chris Perez who explained that rains when they fall more consistently at about this time of the year are signals that summer is gone.
Such changes, he said, could bring mostly cloudy skies and scattered rain showers but not any kind of storm or typhoon.
And certainly not flood.
Mention of floods, by the way, always jogs my memory of Ondoy which devastated our home pitilessly, almost without mercy.
But that's another story.
Still, floods bring to mind the case of Espana Boulevard which is currently undergoing rehabilitation construction to elevate it, precisely to avoid its whole stretch all the way to the approach of Quezon City rotunda from the gates of the University of Santo Tomas, being submerged in floodwaters during the rainy days.
I remember years ago at about this time of the year when the flooded streets around the university belt in Sampaloc were dominated by students in groups cavorting in the rain and young lovers frolicking in the flood in their wet togetherness.
They were big crowds of the country's young people enrolled in such schools as the UST, the Far Eastern University, University of the East, San Sebastian College, San Beda College, Centro Escolar University, Manuel L. Quezon University, Arellano University, University of Manila, Holy Spirit College, and National University, among others.
It is from those campuses that they go out to the flooded streets after having been dismissed from their classes because of the inclement weather.
It was fiesta time.
They were the scenes of long ago but their memories persist because certain remnants of the past are left by the passing scenes such as the end of summer and the beginning of the wet season that coincide with the opening of the school year.
And then again, the beginning of a New Administration. Any comment direct to zhern_218@yahoo.com
Ccn : Climate Control News
