“…For example, people in South China witnessed an extraordinarily long‐lasting severe drought in autumn 2009, resulting in more than 80 million people suffering direct economic losses of up to 30 billion yuan Renminbi (e.g., Barriopedro et al, ; Gu et al, ; W. Zhang et al, , ). In the context of global warming, more frequent regional autumn droughts occurred over the subtropical East Asia in recent decades (e.g., L. Wang et al, ; Wei et al, ; W. Zhang et al, , ). Meanwhile, more frequent autumn tropical cyclones were observed to generate over the northwestern part of the western North Pacific due to the southwestward shift of the tropical upper‐tropospheric trough and the northwestward retreat of the monsoon trough (e.g., Hu et al, ; Wu et al, ), accompanied by abundant moisture transport and enhanced convective precipitation (Hu et al, ).…”