It’s never over: Furious Storms Batter the Philippines, devastate Indian Ocean Island

Hurricane season, which died down in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico a month ago, has picked up violently elsewhere. Huge typhoons have hit areas around the Philippines and France’s Mayotte island in the Indian Ocean. La Monde described some scenes there as “apocalyptic.” 

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Rising temperatures in the regions have been blamed for the storms, with the “exceptional” cyclone that hit Mayotte being super-charged by particularly warm Indian Ocean waters, meteorologist Francois Gourand of France’s Météo France weather service told Agence France Presse.

The news bodes poorly for the U.S. This hurricane season was arguably the worst in history. Hurricane Bertha was the earliest Category 5 storm in the history of the Atlantic hurricane season, and Hurricanes Helene and Milton did such great damage on the West Coast of Florida into the western part of North Carolina that the financial tolls haven’t been completely tallied.

Record temperatures on the Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of Mexico were blamed for the ferocity of the storms; meanwhile, the storms in the Pacific and Indian Oceans demonstrate that the storms that hit the U.S. and Mexico were in danger of becoming more than a rare incident.

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