cyclone

Last year, around 80% of the population were directly impacted by a double cyclone.

Globally, scientists say that tropical cyclones and hurricanes are unlikely to become more frequent overall.

And in the Pacific north-west , communities are still recovering after last week's bomb cyclone, an intense weather event that takes place when air pressure quickly drops off the coast.

The storm, the first big one of the season, moved over California as a bomb cyclone, a description of how it rapidly intensified before making its way onshore.

The first major atmospheric river system is pummeling the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, supercharged by a bomb cyclone.