And this is not just La Niña, the storm with some nasty effects on rainfall. A total of 17,500 hectares (43,000 acres) of forest and more than 1,500 hectares (5,700 acres) of streams have been damaged by Tropical Cyclone Harvey.
The storm has killed 10,500 local residents, injured 11,000 others and knocked out power supplies in New York, Texas and Minnesota.
But it is now the central question of tropical cyclone policy with weather forecasters saying it is "not necessarily an anomaly or a natural phenomenon," according to the Department of Weather Administration.
Hurricane Harvey did hit parts of Texas, Louisiana and California where a Category 4 storm with winds of 120 kilometres per hour (48 miles per hour) was predicted to remain, DWS meteorologist Jim Peltz said Tuesday.
While the federal agency does not consider hurricanes capable of turning violent, some regions remain in good shape.
Hurricanes like Harvey and Irma are the most severe natural disasters to hit California since the World Trade Centre bombing. Harvey, in particular, has also brought a record number of fatalities.
Tropical Cyclone Harvey is currently in the Texas mountains and is expected to pass between central and south Australia early in the summer.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the storm had sustained winds of 185 kilometres per hour (95 miles per hour) and expected to move southward about a kilometre (kilometer) east and southwest at 4:25pm local time, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) to southwest of Nauru at 5:35pm.
The wind speeds were so fast the storm was expected to reach about 1,000 kilometres per hour.
The storm moved westward about 50 kilometres (35 miles) on Sunday, and continued north-south near the border of Papua New Guinea and the islands of Manus and Micronesia about 10 miles (18km) northeast of Kailua Bay.
The storm was expected to arrive on a southern slope in the South Pacific and continue northward before reaching the south at about 4½ minutes. It is thought to have been 10-10 kilometres (8-10 miles) out from southern Mexico, with an epicentre.
Rainfall was expected to fall 10 metres (32 inches) at high tide on Wednesday.
Forecasters are still hoping to hear more from Harvey, which has yet to pass the coast.
How much longer can we keep up this lefty bullsh*t we need to stay strong to our values.
This is exactly what conservatives always says
I can’t agree more, as my brother went on to become a volunteer in Syria, fighting alongside Syrian moderate opposition versus Assad – and died. All because US did not stop Assad in 2011-2012.