The fast intensification, which made Typhoon Rai the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year, exceeded forecasts, forecasters said, leaving nearly 400 dead and nearly a million displaced.
Though it is unclear how global warming will impact intensification of such storms, the U.N.”s climate agency has observed that it is” likely that, as temperature rises, the frequency of rapidly intensifying events has increased “over the past four decades.
Initially the force of the typhoon was estimated to be five storms with winds of sixty to sixty miles per hour.
