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,

For a community, being struck by one typhoon is a harrowing enough experience — much less a series of them. Unfortunately, for residents of the northern Philippines, they’ve been hit by three typhoons and a tropical storm in the last three weeks.

Thousands of villages were ordered to evacuate and ports shut down, officials said Monday, as the disaster-weary Philippines was struck by another typhoon - the fourth in less than a month.