China expects more typhoons due to La Nina

The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center (NMEFC) on Tuesday forecast a La Nina event would hit China in autumn and winter bringing typhoons, ocean waves and frozen seas.

NMEFC forecaster Jiang Hua said since the El Nino event ended in April, sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Eastern Central Pacific Ocean have been dropping. From July, the area with subnormal surface water temperatures has expanded markedly.

As temperatures in the western Pacific will be warmer than usual, conditions will be favorable to the formation of typhoons, bringing storm tides and significant ocean waves in the autumn, and more severe freezing in winter.

La Nina is an ocean atmosphere phenomenon, characterized by low sea temperatures across the equatorial eastern central Pacific. It often occurs after a strong El Nino event. Endit