The Philippines has scrambled to deal with multiple calamities wreaked by four back-to-back typhoons and storms in less than a month.

AccuWeather meteorologists say the Western Pacific Ocean is experiencing a surge in tropical activity this week, with four storms stretching from Vietnam to the Mariana Islands. As one typhoon makes its exit from the Philippines Monday,

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Yinxing battered the northern Philippines with floods and landslides before blowing away from the country on Friday, leaving two airports damaged and aggravating a calamity caused by back-to-back storms that hit in recent weeks.

Devastating floods struck the northern Philippines on Monday, when Tropical Storm Toraji became the fourth tropical storm to hit the island nation in three weeks.

Typhoon Toraji unleashed floods, knocked down trees and caused power outages in the northern Philippines before weakening into a tropical storm and blowing out to the South China Sea, officials said on Tuesday as they braced for another approaching storm.