lesson 3

• Land breeze - breeze which moves towards the sea from the land.
• Sea breeze - breeze which moves towards the land from the sea.
• Land breeze - takes place during night time or early morning.
• Sea breeze - takes place during day time.
• Land breeze - occurs mostly during the winter and autumn season.
• Sea breeze - occurs mostly during the summer and spring season.
• During land breeze, the land cools faster as compared to the sea.
• During sea breeze, land cools relatively slower that the sea.
• Dry wind flows in land breeze.
• Moist wind flows in the sea breeze because the wind near sea will contain some amount of moisture.
• The other name of Land breeze is off-shore breeze.
• The other name of Sea breeze is on-shore breeze.
• Habagat brings rainy season to the west portion of the country.
• Amihan brings dry season in the Philippines.
• Monsoon is a wind that blows in a certain season and lasts for several months at a time.
• Intertropical Convergence Zone it is the place where winds in the tropics meet or converge.
• Northeast Monsoon - from Nov to March; blows from Siberia towards the Philippines; brings the cold temperature from northern hemisphere(winter).
• Southwest Monsoon - from June to October; develops because of the cold air mass coming from the south, Australia, where it is winter. This cold front meets the warm front in the Philippines and causes the rainy season in the western part of the country.
• Trade Winds - from March to early May; blows from the North Pacific Ocean and reach the Philippines from the east. It brings rain only to the eastern part of the country.