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According to the Associated Press, nature expresses its anger in various ways. Two deadly storms, the "Florence" hurricane and the typhoon "Mangosteen" landed on the same day at both ends of the Earth, but they spread the same way as water and wind.

On September 15, Princeton University hurricane and climatologist Gabriel Wedge said that storms in the western Pacific are usually more windy, and people living in the storm are often poorer and more vulnerable. This may determine the type of damage.

"Mangosteen" landed on the northeastern end of Luzon Island in the Philippines on the 14th, with the highest grade 5 wind speed of 265 kilometers per hour. When Florence arrived on the North Carolina coast, it had weakened into a first-class storm with a wind speed of 144 kilometers per hour.
However, one day after landing, the faster moving mangosteen flew toward China. At the same time, Florence is still slowly passing through South Carolina, slower than normal people walking. By the morning of the 15th, the rainfall in North Carolina had exceeded 76 centimeters, setting a record for North Carolina.

Experts say that "Mangosteen" is likely to be a more deadly storm. As of the afternoon of the 15th, the number of deaths in the Philippines was slightly higher, but it was still far below the storms that hit the islands where the disaster occurred frequently. As “Mangosteen” is moving towards the densely populated southeast coast of China, it may cause more damage. However, Ernst Ruch, head of climate research at Munich Reinsurance, the world's largest reinsurer, told German media that the total loss of insurance in Florence will eventually be higher.
This is the result of a combination of geography, climatic conditions and human factors. So far this year, 23 storms have occurred in the western Pacific, 10 times in the Atlantic, and the busyness of these two regions is more than 30% higher than the average. Hurricanes and typhoons are the same type of storm; both are tropical cyclones, but they occur at the ends of the Earth as hurricanes and typhoons.

The waters of the western Pacific are warmer, and the warmer waters add fuel to the storm fire. Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, said that only a few blocks of land can block and weaken Meteorologist Ryan Maue of the weather model website said: "The Philippines is hit hard every year, and Carolina is much less, despite a lot of close ties. This shows another huge difference in the storm. 'Mangosteen' The southerly place formed and stayed on the warm waters of the south. When it arrived on land, 'Florence' had left the tropics."

Because of this, “Florence” is weakened by dry air and high-level winds at higher latitudes. Maue said that in the south the "mangosteen", there is essentially a perfect environment that can be strengthened to level 5 and stay there.
Fleet Klotzbach, a researcher at Hurricane State University in Colorado, said: "The hurricane of Florence and the typhoon mangosteen must be different animals." He said that because Florence moves too slowly, it will be more than mangosteen. More rain.

The economy also played a role in the impact of the storm. As a developing country, the Philippines is much poorer than the southeastern United States, which means that, among other things, houses in the Philippines are often not as strong and the equipment of emergency personnel is not so good. This is why when the disaster comes, the consequences can be one of the causes of devastating. In 2013, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, the typhoon Haiyan, which killed 7,300 people and displaced more than 5 million people while sweeping the central islands of the Philippines
The Philippines spans the famous Pacific volcanic crater and is also plagued by volcanoes and earthquakes. Although there are quite a few poor areas in North Carolina and South Carolina, it is different from the rural areas where the mangosteen attack.