From PBS Terra.

Three tropical cyclones spinning across the Pacific at the same time is rare enough, but the truly bizarre part was what happened next. Super Typhoon Sinlaku rapidly intensified into one of the strongest storms ever recorded this early in the year, fueled by unusually warm ocean waters before slamming into the Northern Mariana Islands. Here’s why this storm was so unusual, and what it tells us about the future of tropical cyclones in a warming world.

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