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00:00Deluvio has been experienced by many of our fellow countrymen.
00:04Four typhoons in just 10 days.
00:07Six in a month.
00:09Millions of pesos worth of assets were destroyed.
00:12The question is, why did the strong typhoon that was called
00:16an unusual occurrence by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA
00:20come one after another?
00:21Here is the special report of Darlene Cai.
00:30The strong typhoon that was called an unusual occurrence by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA
00:35I have never experienced anything like this.
00:38The strong typhoon that was called an unusual occurrence by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA
00:41I was afraid of the strong wind.
00:44The water was too deep.
00:49The Philippines has witnessed a series of strong typhoons in the past few months.
00:54Almost 300 people have died.
00:56Six more are missing.
00:59Even if it's just a guess, we are asking for information.
01:04At least we will be able to see the house.
01:15Hundreds of thousands have lost their homes and livelihoods.
01:19It's hard to lose a house.
01:24Even if we live here on this land, it's still hard.
01:28More than 38 billion pesos have been lost in agriculture and other industries.
01:35Leonita is one of the victims of the typhoon.
01:38In their village in Dinasag Aurora, the typhoon Nika caused a landfall.
01:42I was just like that.
01:45Because it was so strong.
01:47And my neighbor was moving up and up.
01:52That's why I was really scared.
01:56Her house was destroyed.
01:58They also experienced severe trauma.
02:01It was really strong.
02:03You couldn't see anything.
02:06The trees were falling down.
02:11We couldn't do anything.
02:13Everything was wet.
02:15The roof was removed.
02:18The typhoon Marse cut and destroyed many houses in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte.
02:26I used to build this road.
02:28But when the typhoon hit, the road was damaged.
02:33The cement was crushed.
02:35Even the seawall here in Barangay Poblacion 1 was destroyed.
02:39In an instant, the 60-year-old memory of Jocelyn was erased.
02:46The house where she grew up was destroyed by the typhoon Marse.
02:50There was no roof.
02:51The windows were broken.
02:53All the equipment inside was destroyed.
02:55The typhoon was destroyed.
02:57It was really hard.
02:59The house was destroyed.
03:03But it seems like there's no time to mourn.
03:06Because they will return to the evacuation center
03:09because of the upcoming typhoons.
03:13I hope that God will help us.
03:19He will help us to rebuild our house.
03:24In November, there were 4 typhoons that entered the country within 10 days.
03:30Not only Filipinos were affected.
03:34It was called an unusual occurrence
03:36or not the usual occurrence of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA.
03:42This is the first time that the Japan Meteorological Agency has seen this
03:46since their records started in 1951.
03:49But, according to Pag-asa, this is not the first time that this has happened.
03:56This has happened for the past records.
03:59The September record is not only one of the 6 recorded typhoons.
04:05And for October, there was a higher frequency or more frequent.
04:10In one month?
04:11In one month.
04:12So, the highest recorded was 6.
04:14So, last October, there were only 4.
04:17This means that the number of typhoons that entered the Philippines in the past month is not unusual.
04:23According to Pag-asa, the unusual occurrence was caused by the typhoons that were forming and arriving.
04:30The following typhoons were too fast.
04:34In 1951, there were 4 typhoons that quickly developed in the Northwest Pacific.
04:40But, what is unusual is that all of those typhoons entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility.
04:48And, almost all of those typhoons were landfalling or almost 100% reached the Philippines.
04:57Why did this happen?
04:59According to Pag-asa, they are still studying this.
05:02But, what they are seeing now is due to the phenomenon of cooling of the sea.
05:08Even if there is a typhoon, the heat of the sea that is close to us does not subside.
05:16So, all of the typhoons rose and became severe tropical storms and super typhoons.
05:24From Christine until Pipito.
05:27So, that is what we saw as the pattern.
05:30But, the topic of climate change and global warming quickly disappeared.
05:34For a long time, it was called global boiling.
05:37That is what some experts studied from the UP Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology
05:43led by the atmospheric physicist Dr. Jerry Bagdasa.
05:47Using the information from the typhoon Ulysses in 2020,
05:52they found out that if the sea is hotter and the environment is hotter, the typhoon becomes stronger.
06:00It means that the higher the sea temperature, the faster and more water evaporates to become clouds.
06:07If there are more and heavier clouds, more rain will fall.
06:12So, because the temperature of the sea is 1.6 degrees hotter than it was 40 years ago,
06:19the typhoons are stronger now.
06:22And if the temperature of the sea and the environment in front of us continues to rise,
06:27we can expect stronger typhoons.
06:31Those with stronger winds and more rain.
06:36The government said that they are already preparing.
06:40For example, the improvement of their early warning system.
06:45We are slowly and surely transitioning into a graphical representation of the damage
06:55that will be incurred by any tropical cyclone that may pass or land or affect the Philippines.
07:04We are doing IEC.
07:07We are going to the community, but different offices are doing it.
07:16And then, we do educational awareness of conferences or seminars.
07:24The Office of Civil Defense is also preparing for the worst-case scenario
07:31that it is the implementing arm of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council or NDRRMC.
07:37That's why they are buying additional equipment for disaster response.
07:42Over-preparation is better.
07:44The so-called worst-case scenario is also our assumption.
07:48In the mind and ability of our government agencies.
07:53There are lessons learned from the past typhoons,
07:56such as the use of hazard maps and data prepared by experts.
08:00We also learned a lot on how to make it more strategic.
08:05The use of scientific data from different government agencies.
08:14We are already reaping the fruits of people's dedication to nature.
08:19But that doesn't mean that we should give up.
08:22Now that we know that the situation could get worse,
08:26we should be better prepared and take better care of the environment.
08:33This is the first news.
08:35Darlene Kaye for GMA Integrated News.
08:56Transcription by ESO. Translation by —