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Warming seas brought an eerie calm to a stormy region

In July 2020, the Western North Pacific was hit by a record-breaking number of typhoons: zero.
Satellite image of Super Typhoon Surigae

Typhoon Surigae looms over the Western North Pacific in mid-April 2021. Such storms, normally common in the region, were notably absent in July 2020. Credit: NASA via Wikimedia Commons

Unusually balmy Indian Ocean temperatures were a major reason for the total lack of Pacific typhoons in July 2020 — an unprecedented absence in 55 years of record-keeping.

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Nature 593, 11 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01145-1

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