AccuWeather meteorologists say the Western Pacific Ocean is experiencing a surge in tropical activity this week, with four storms stretching from Vietnam to the Mariana Islands. As one typhoon makes its exit from the Philippines Monday,

The Philippines has scrambled to deal with multiple calamities wreaked by four back-to-back typhoons and storms in less than a month.

A river swollen from Typhoon Toraji rains swallowed homes in a northern province in the Philippines. Aerial footage shows the Cagayan River swallowing swathes of farm and residential land in Cagayan province on2.