Here are Tagalog lessons, riddles and trivia about the weather.

Kamusta ang panahon? (How’s the weather?)

mainit - hot
mabanas / ang banas - humid
mahangin - it’s windy
malamig - it’s cold
umaambon - it’s drizzling
maulan - rainy
bumubuhos ang ulan - it’s raining very hard
umaanggi ang ulan - it’s raining sideways
umuulan ng yelo - it’s raining ice (ice is falling from the sky)
baha ang mga kalye - the streets are flooded
may bagyo - there’s a storm
kumukulog - there’s thunder
kumikidlat - there’s lightning
may ipu-ipo - there’s a tornado
sumasabog ang bulkan - there’s a volcanic explosion
lumilindol - there’s an earthquake
katamtaman lang - just right

Bugtong (Riddle):
Buhok ni Adan (The hair of Adam)
hindi mabilang. (cannot be counted.)

Sagot (Answer): Ulan (rain)

The elders say that the first rains of the month of May are collected, and this rainwater is turned into holy water. But I won’t dip my fingers in the holy water receptacle in a certain chapel in Novaliches anymore. ;-)

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