Millions have been evacuated in China, India, the Philippines and Myanmar as storms trigger widespread damage.

So far in August, more than 50 people have died and millions have been forced to evacuate due to monsoon rains, cyclones and subsequent flooding in China, India, the Philippines and Myanmar.

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The situation has been worsened by the passage of cyclones Luis, Maymay and Dolphin, as well as several tropical storms, which have caused rivers to overflow, numerous landslides and road collapses, while forecasts continue to call for additional rainfall in some of the affected areas.

In the past week alone, authorities and humanitarian organizations counted 23 deaths in Myanmar, 21 in the Philippines and seven in India, with dozens of people injured and thousands of families displaced to shelters.

The convergence of storms has affected nearly 4 million people in the Philippines, 1.2 million in India and another half-million in Myanmar. These countries have been particularly affected by the monsoon, which develops between June and September and causes floods, landslides, and road closures every year.

In eastern China, the remnants of Dolphin forced 1.6 million people to evacuate this week because of heavy rains that will continue through Friday in 10 provinces, including Henan in the center, Shandong in the east and Anhui in the east.

In Japan, Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall Tuesday in the eastern prefecture of Ibaraki, near Tokyo, leaving five people with minor injuries, power outages affecting approximately 20,000 households and canceled flights.

In addition, localized flooding has affected four provinces in Laos, including the capital, Vientiane, according to a report by the local Red Cross, with no official tally of casualties or damage reported so far.

A town and a city (in Hunan), China. This year China has been facing a lot of rains and floods. Like how a tropical country like India faces during its intense Monsoon season. In many foreign countries, they don’t have a single intense rainy season like India does every year. pic.twitter.com/BU9GcYAMuC

— Aravind (@aravind) August 6, 2026

El Niño Alert

Currently, Asia is under threat from El Niño, the phenomenon that has warmed Pacific waters and is expected to be “very strong” from October through December.

In July, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned that El Niño would continue through the spring of 2027 and that cyclone activity in the Pacific would increase during the remainder of 2026.

This week, British company Eurotempest published a study predicting an “especially active” cyclone season that has already caused havoc in the Philippines and China, whose governments ordered the suspension of in-person classes at thousands of schools because of the bad weather.

Meanwhile, unstable atmospheric conditions persist in Japan, prompting authorities to continue issuing alerts, while in Myanmar, rescue teams are searching for two missing people and helping hundreds of people whose homes remain flooded get to safety by boat.

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