Eight years ago The Philippines was hit by a typhoon which killed 6,000 people and the press declared to be the strongest ever.
Supertyphoon Haiyan: One Year Later, Survivors Struggle to Recover | Time
Climate experts David Cameron declared that it was caused by a one part per ten thousand increase in CO2 over the past century.
“Yeb Sano, the country’s lead negotiator, said Haiyan “was like nothing we have ever experienced before, or perhaps nothing that any country has ever experienced before”.”
Cameron links typhoon Haiyan to climate change | Climate crisis | The Guardian
The same spot was hit by typhoons which were as bad or worse in 1912 and 1897.
Washington Evening Journal, Nov 30, 1912, p. 1
29 Nov 1912, Page 1 – The Oregon Daily Journal at Newspapers.com
29 Nov 1912, 1 – Lincoln Journal Star at Newspapers.com
30 Nov 1912 – DEADLY TYPHOON. – Trove
TimesMachine: November 29, 1912 – NYTimes.com
29 Nov 1897, Page 1 – Daily News-Democrat at Newspapers.com
12 Jan 1898 – TYPHOON AND TIDAL WAVE IN THE PHILLIPINES. – Trove
TimesMachine: November 28, 1897 – NYTimes.com
The number of severe and non-severe typhoons has been decreasing over the past 50 years.
Two years later, the press announced that Mexico was about to be hit by the strongest hurricane in history.
Comparing Hurricane Patricia and Typhoon Haiyan – The New York Times
At landfall the winds were almost hurricane force.
Patricia loses strength as it hits Mexico
It took two weeks for the leaves to grow back on the trees.
