{"id":75428,"date":"2025-12-01T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/asia-floods-visual-guide-flooding-extreme-weather-cyclones-monsoon"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:39:28","slug":"how-cyclones-and-monsoon-rains-combined-to-devastate-parts-of-asia-visual-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75428","title":{"rendered":"How cyclones and monsoon rains converged to devastate parts of Asia \u2013 visual guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme weather kills more than 1,100 people across south and south-east Asia as cyclones turbocharge rain systems<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/dec\/01\/death-toll-floods-indonesia-sri-lanka-malaysia-thailand-latest-updates-news-live\">Devastating floods hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tropical cyclones have combined with heavy monsoon rains to lay waste to swathes of Asia, killing more than 1,100 people as of Monday, with the death toll expected to rise, and leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/29\/indonesia-and-thailand-flooding-death-toll-tops-350-as-rescuers-struggle-to-reach-worst-hit-areas\">many more homeless<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A confluence of three tropical weather systems \u2013 including a rare cyclonic storm that built up in the strait of Malacca \u2013 has fuelled intense wind and rainover the past week, devastating areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam with flooding and mudslides.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/asia-floods-visual-guide-flooding-extreme-weather-cyclones-monsoon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme weather kills more than 1,100 people across south and south-east Asia as cyclones turbocharge rain systemsDevastating floods hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand \u2013 latest updatesTropical cyclones have combined with heavy monsoon rain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,455,156,70,61,674,93,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-extreme-weather","category-indonesia","category-malaysia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-thailand","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75442,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428\/revisions\/75442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}