What's the weather like today?

Have you ever asked that question? I guess 90% of you said that at least 1 time in your life. As for me, it's the most basic thing that I learned from my very first English for children class. Come to think of it, it's been like 14 years since I knew how to ask what the weather is in English. Talking about English, at least 70% people using this language as their mother tongue live in temperate climate zone. So what? That means they have more chance to ask "What's the weather like today?" and it's just common if you see someone stranger asking them that question. However, it's a whole different situation if you live in Vietnam, where there is only 2 seasons: dry and rainy season. Now you may wanna ask, so what to do with it? Here comes the answer. In Ho Chi Minh city in the South of Vietnam, there are basically no stuff like snow, icy rain, red leaves, etc. Here we have 3 months full of rains and the rest 9 months full of sunlight. "That's good, why do you have to complain? You don't have to waste money on winter clothes like sweaters, scarves, gloves." Does that idea pop out in your mind ? The answer is no. Together with sunlight is high humidity, which means you can sweat a lot if you go outside for just 15 minutes. Human beings are complicated specie. They complain if there is scarce sunlight, they also mumble if there is too much sunlight. In this case, I mean, in my hometown, people grudge because of the latter. Due to the climate, the average temperature is always around 95 degrees Fahrenheit, and in combination with high humidity, going out at noon in a sunny day is the most annoying thing people want to do. Here sunlight is the most fearsome enemy of women, so don't be surprised if you visit Ho Chi Minh city and realize that you just come to a town of ninjas, where 99% of people going around with mask.

Now here comes the rain. During 3 months of raining, we have all kinds of stuff that can satisfy the most fastidious rainists. We have drizzles to wet the streets, we have showers for girls to show off their colorful umbrellas or raincoats. We also have a little lightning, or thunder during heavy rains. We even have thing called sudden rain, which can be described like: the clear sky turns immediately into cloudy state, and here comes water from the sky, and just after 5 minutes, we can see clear blue sky again. That's what we expect in rainy season in HCM city, my hometown.

Now that you have some ideas of how the weather is like in my hometown, it's my turn to ask you "What's the weather like today?"