La Nina ‘could bring more deadly typhoons to Asia’

Just days after two typhoons battered the Philippines killing hundreds, a top meteorologist has warned the ravaged country could face further damaging storms as a result of the La Nina weather system.

- ALEX CROFT

More than one million people were displaced from the southeast Asian country as successive storms - Typhoon Kalmaegi and Super Typhoon Fung-wong - brought untold devastation to the region, killing more than 250 people in total.

As authorities work through the flattened structures of the Philippines' main island in the north, Luzon, a leading weather forecaster has warned the country could face more tropical storms before the end of 2025 - even though La Nina is expected to be weaker and shorter-lived than usual.

Jason Nicholls, lead international forecaster with AccuWeather, told The Independent he is "concerned that the Philippines is not out of the water yet for another tropical impact or two", noting that the country has "already been hit two times recently".

During La Nina, which occurs during the cooling phase of the sea surface temperature, the wind shear - a phenomenon that hampers the formation and strengthening of hurricanes -is typically weakened.