why is it that there are only two seasons in the Philippines while others have four?

Answer 1

Since the Philippines are close to the Equator and North America is farther away, the tilting of the Earth over the year affects North America more.
Like somebody else said above, the tropical areas typically have only two seasons (wet and dry) while the more northern and southern latitudes have the spring-summer-fall-winter cycle.
Our extremes in the North (or South) are caused by the Earth tilting toward the sun (in the summer) or tilting away (winter) which means the sun hits our countries either more directly or less directly.
In the Philippines, you have a variation, but it is much more consistent through the year. (You don't get a variation in temperature between 40deg C and -20 deg C between summer and winter.)

I'm not sure which one I would like better. It sucks having wild temperature swings, but I do like the variety.

Answer 2

Long before Keppler and Copernicus, people named and identified seasons. In northern Europe there were four and these were taken across to north America. The seasons were identified by the weather, the behaviour and migration of birds and animals and the flowering and fruiting of plants. Other cultures identified and named seasons in exactly the same way - but there were not necessarily four seasons.

The influence of northern Europe and north America means that as European culture has spread through the world, the four seasons have gone with it - whether or not the local climate had four seasons. If you investigate local cultures before Europeans arrived you will find different ideas about seasons.

In Australia we have the four European seasons for convenience but the local people would not agree. Depending on the locality and language there are varying numbers of seasons in different parts of Australia ranging from two to eight with five or six seasons being the most widespread.

Europeans like to describe tropical climates as having two seasons - a wet season and a dry season - and this would be what has happened in the Philippines. It is not necessarily how the locals would have described the seasons before the Europeans arrived. In Darwin in northern Australia, the Europeans speak of the two seasons while the native people have six seasons.

Answer 3

Luv Your name. Well, the Phillipines is further in the south. They don't get much weather. Los ANgeles is somewhat that way. WInter Kind of just started. It usually ends in a month.

Answer 4

It's God's will ... That's just how he likes things.