"From 2am, there have been four to five landslides, exploding like bombs and it feels like the whole mountain is about to collapse."

70 dead in floods and landslides in central Vietnam.

Interestingly, Taiwan, Australia, Japan (?) have seen benign conditions so far this year - possibly due to La Nina - while the US, parts of India, China, Vietnam have been copping it.

As we've observed before, global warming is not something that affects the globe in a blanket manner - more like a laser beam that torches a certain area for a year or so before moving onto another location - unless it's California - where it just seems to stay all the time.