Human-induced climate change fuelled a rare string of back-to-back typhoons that battered the Philippines this year and boosted the chances of powerful storms making landfall, a new study has announced.

Climate change made the conditions that formed and fuelled the typhoons nearly twice as likely, the scientists found. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to extreme weather. Between late October and mid November 2024, the country was hit by a barrage of storms, starting with severe Tropical Storm Trami on 22 October, and ending with Tropical Storm Man-Yi which made landfall on 16 November.

Climate change is making the Philippines more vulnerable to tropical storms, with rising temperatures already putting the country at nearly double the risk of deadly typhoons, scientists said in a report published on Thursday.

The Philippines was battered by six storms in four weeks. And for a first time since record-keeping began in 1951, four of them were simultaneously found in the Pacific Basin.

A new report revealed that climate change is increasing the Philippines’ vulnerability to tropical storms.As per Reuters, rising temperatures have already nearly doubled the country’s risk of experiencing deadly typhoons.