"#TyphoonGaemi, a powerful Pacific storm, is blasting #Taiwan after tracing a bizarre loop-de-loop. Taiwan’s east coast was hammered by the storm’s intense inner core twice.
Gaemi rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm overnight Tuesday into Wednesday local time, peaking with winds around 150 mph."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/07/24/typhoon-gaemi-path-taiwan-explained/
#RapidIntensification
"A cargo ship off Taiwan and an oil tanker off the Philippines sank on Thursday morning, both in rough seas. In the Philippines authorities are searching for a missing crew member, and warn they face a “race against time” to contain a huge oil spill that is heading for Manila."
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/typhoon-gaemi-taiwan-china-philippines-flooding-path-b2585718.html
#TyphoonGaemi
"Much of the #Philippines capital remained underwater Thursday after deadly #TyphoonGaemi worsened torrential monsoon rains that lashed the country, trapping thousands of people in rising flood waters and causing widespread damage.
Continuous heavy rains, massive flooding and landslides across the Philippines killed at least 13 people and displaced more than 600,000."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/asia/philippines-flooding-manila-climate-typhoon-gaemi-intl-hnk/index.html
#TyphoonCarina
Much of the Philippine capital remained underwater Thursday after deadly Typhoon Gaemi worsened torrential monsoon rains that lashed the country, trapping thousands of people in rising flood waters and causing widespread damage.
"The worst loss of life, however, was in a country that #Gaemi earlier passed by but didn't strike directly: the #Philippines. A steadily climbing death toll has reached 34, authorities there said Friday. The typhoon exacerbated seasonal monsoon rains in the Southeast Asian country, causing landslides and severe flooding that stranded people on rooftops as waters rose around them."
"Emergency responses were put in place and flights and trains have been cancelled in #Fujian. More than 240,000 people have been forced to flee their homes.
After hitting the Chinese coast, the storm is expected to bring heavy rains to inland areas including the capital Beijing over the next three days, including areas that have already been soaked for days."
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/typhoon-gaemi-taiwan-china-philippines-flooding-path-b2585718.html
#Gaemi
"The study could not draw definitive conclusions about the role of #ClimateChange on the rainfall in the Philippines, because of the region’s complex monsoon rain patterns.
Still, they found the warm seas that helped form and fuel #TyphoonGaemi “would have been virtually impossible” in a world that had not warmed to the current 1.2 deg C above pre-industrial levels."
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/climate-change-fuelled-deadly-typhoon-gaemi-study
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