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Climate Change In The Philippines

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One of the vastest issues the country is facing during the recent years is climate change. This change occurring in the climate has an impact on the natural phenomena like changing rainfall distribution and temperature, to name some. It is a fact that annually, 20 tropical cyclones enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), on the average. Among the total tropical cyclones, not all are developed to become a strong typhoon, which brings disasters and serious destruction to the environment that severely affects humans. The disasters being described are forest fires, soil erosion, flooding, etc (ERDB 2011).

Flood is the cause of overflowing in a certain body of water that covers a dry land . This is the most frequent event brought by typhoons and continuous precipitation and this happens when the water exceeds the absorptive capacity of the soil and carrying capacity of the streams. Also, this can be more hazardous if the event happened in a flood prone area. Many provinces and municipalities in the Philippines are exposed to this type of event like Sta. Cruz, Laguna. Since, Sta. Cruz is where the capitol of Laguna is …show more content…

Cruz Watershed is geographically located at 14 11’01.2” latitude and 121 26’34.7” longitude. Mt. Banahaw-San Cristobal Protected area is where the Sta. Cruz watershed’s main waterline is located (DENR, 2012). The climate in the area is identified as Type I with two pronounced seasons, dry and wet. The former is from February to April and May to January on the latter. The highest and lowest rainfall occurrence in the area is from May to December and January to April, respectively. The total number of rainy days that was recorded is 202 and the monthly mean daily rainfall, 262.44 mm. The average annual temperature in the area ranges from 23.05˚C to 29.93˚C, the previous as the lowest and the latter as the peak. The average temperature during the coldest month, January, is 24.6˚C and during the warmest month, May, is 28.10˚C, every

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