Typhoon Kalmaegi kills two people as it batters Philippines

As Typhoon Kalmaegi has stricken the central Philippines, killing at least two people, residents have sought refuge on rooftops, and cars have floated through flooded streets.

The powerful storm, which made landfall just before midnight on Monday, has caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee.

According to forecasters, the 20th tropical cyclone to strike the Philippines this year was moving westward at 25 kilometers/h (16 mph) on Tuesday and was expected to begin moving westward into the South China Sea by early on Wednesday.

According to information officer on the island of Cebu, Rhon Ramos, “people are asking to be rescued,” and that some evacuation centers have been flooded as well.

He claimed that hundreds of people were forced to be forced to live in tent cities after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the island in late September.

387, 000 people have been evacuated from the path of the typhoon, according to Rafaelito Alejandro, Office of Civil Defence deputy administrator, according to local radio.

An elderly person drowned in Leyte province, according to disaster official Danilo Atienza, who reported the death of a man killed by a falling tree in Bohol province.

At least “three to five more” storms could be forecast before the end of December, according to Charmagne Varilla, a state weather service specialist.

According to scientists, climate change is making storms more frequent and powerful, and this is causing them.

Varilla claimed that La Nina, a naturally occurring climate pattern that cools the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean’s surface temperatures, is typically associated with higher levels of cyclones.