CALBAYOG CITY
COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT
Subject: Nat.Sci
Science)
Physical
Science
(Earth
With the high humidity and heat of the months May and June it is
not surprising that something has to give, it just cannot stay this
sticky forever and you are right. The season will break, usually in
July. It is July through to November that the rains come and boy do
they come. These rains are called monsoons and are a constant
wind bringing rain.
Each year during the southwestern monsoon the Philippines
climate also attracts typhoons which batter the Pacific eastern
coastline of Luzon , Samar , Leyte but nearly never Mindanao .
The typhoons come in from the Western Pacific in a north-westerly
direction, they also whip up the Philippines surf.
In the last years we counted less typhoons per year but they were
more violent and made landfall in the north and in the south. In
2009 a series of four cyclones battered northern Luzon in one
month.
Typhoon Season
Every year tropical cyclones build up over the northwestern
Pacific. In the first phase they usually move from southeast to
west.
Then most of them, but not all, veer towards north and then
north-east. Some of these cyclones leave crazy tracks. In 2012
typhoon Tembin/Igme passed twice at Taiwan's southern coast.
The strongest cyclone that ever did make landfall had been
Haiyan/Yolanda in November 2013. This Super Typhoon Cat.5
devastated parts of Leyte and Samar and left a trace of
destruction over the central Visayas.
*Typhoon Statistics