A restaurant in Ezhou, Hubei province, loses its glass door in seconds. It was not an explosion. It was a tornado with winds of 257 kilometers per hour, a phenomenon so rare in that region that weather expert Wang Xiaoling confirms one had not been seen there since 2021.
While the city was left covered in debris and trees uprooted from the ground, southern China was sinking under water. In Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, the floods had already left 4 dead and affected 55,000 people. In Guigang, 270 kilometers away, a road turned into a lake that swallowed whole cars, and a mudslide left 16 people missing and 33 swept away by the current.
Typhoon Maysak had barely finished battering Vietnam and Hainan when China was already watching two more monsters: Super Typhoon Bavi, with winds of 290 kilometers per hour, and another system threatening the east coast. Taiwan is already mobilizing 29,000 soldiers for what is coming.