"Forecaster warns of very stormy year

While the nation suffers the severest water shortage in 68 years, at least six tropical storms have formed in the northwest Pacific Ocean since January, a record high in more than four decades, a former Central Weather Bureau forecaster said."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/05/05/2003617541

It will be interesting if frequency is the same here in the Atlantic.