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In today's catastrophic "It's just weather" event,
PHOTOS: Floods And Landslides In Southeast Asia Displace Hundreds Of Thousands
By Joanna M. Foster  on January 16, 2014 at 5:17 pm
 A man in Jakarta attempts to cross a flooded street.
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At least 13 people are dead and over 40,000 forced from their homes after torrential rains, which first started Tuesday, caused flooding and landslides in northern Indonesia.
The brunt of the storms was felt in North Sulawesi, a province on the island of Sulawesi, where cars and houses were swept away by overflowing rivers and two people are missing. Another 1,000 people have been cut off from rescue workers after floods destroyed a bridge.
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Just a little over 300 miles from Northern Sulawesi, people on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao are enduring similar soggy misery. The floods and landslides have claimed 26 lives and displaced around 200,000. The country is still reeling from the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan which swept ashore back in November, killing over 6,000, causing an estimated $1.5 billion of damage and displacing millions.
Elsewhere in the region, scientists are warning that a warmer Pacific could cause stronger typhoons for East Asia in the future. Rising sea surface temperatures in the Western Pacific which are helping to strengthen the Walker circulation system are making it more likely that cyclones will follow the line of the East Asian coast, from the South China Sea upward, before making landfall in China, Japan and the Korean Peninsula, when they will be at maximum strength.
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