We're in the Deadliest Time of the Year! (Typhoons in the Philippines)

Dr. Romulo A. Virola, the Secretary-General of the National Statistics Coordination Board has published a witty article with regards to his statistical analysis of typhoon occurence in the country from 1947 up to 2007.

Alarmingly, his analysis revealed that the fourth quarter of the year (October - December) may not have been the most visited months of the year in terms of typhoons, (it's the third quarter, July, August, September that's most visited) but it's the period when the DEADLIEST ones occur and make landfall in the Philippine shores.

The five deadliest and strongest typhoons that made landfall in the country actually crossed the Bicol area, going north westward to CALABARZON-REGION 3 area toward the NCR before successfully drifting to the South-China Sea.

His analysis further revealed a dramatic increase of typhoon activity beginning last decade, the 90s up until today. Coupled with the high number of typhoons, the typhoons with the highest recorded winds as well as those which are classified as most destructive, deadliest and costliest typhoons occured from 1990 to the present. Could this be the result of the radical change in global weather? Is this the outcome of global warming?

Hence, its the high time for us to brace ourselves with stronger and deadlier typhoons in the future - those which are far more than what we might expect and those which would break all the records of disaster in the world and in history of mankind.

Try seeing his article yourself in this website: http://www.nscb.gov.ph/headlines/StatsSpeak/2008/081108_rav_typhoons.asp