| ABS-CBN: I AM old enough to remember when typhoons that hit the country toward the end of the year rarely ever made landfall in Luzon. It was Mindanao that used to bear the brunt of year-end weather disturbances. The explanation then, if memory serves, was that as the temperature began to drop sometime in October or November the cold front from northern Asia prevented tropical cyclones from going beyond the latitudes of the central Philippines. Of course, that was when the so-called ... |
