Yagi gains strength
Yagi’s strength has more than doubled since it devastated the Philippines last week with landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rainfall. At least 13 people died.
After China, the storm is likely to head for Vietnam on Saturday.
Tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons are the same phenomenon where a storm gathers strength from warm water at the ocean’s surface to feed horizontal rotating winds.
They are called hurricanes over the Atlantic and East Pacific, typhoons in the West Pacific and cyclones in the Indian Ocean and near Australia, according to the website of the US space agency NASA.
These storms are becoming stronger and less predictable across the world, fueled by warmer oceans due to climate change, scientists have warned.
