KUALA LUMPUR: Around 12,000 people have fled their homes in Malaysia, police said on Sunday (February 27th).

Tropical East Asia is experiencing extreme weather during the week as heavy rain hits cities across the eastern continent.

Malaysia typically experiences storms during the winter, with occasional flash floods causing severe evacuation.

According to official records, as of 8:30 a.m. GMT (4:30 p.m. Singapore time) on Sunday, there were 11,831 people in flood shelters located in Kelantan and Terengganu.

President Ismail Sabri Yaakob said experts were mobilizing to evacuate victims in anticipation of further flooding. "Many people have been rescued and taken to safety," he said in a Facebook post.

The Meteorological Agency has warned that bad weather will continue in these states, with more rain expected over parts of the island of Borneo and more.

Additional warnings were issued for storms and rough seas, particularly in the South China Sea and the northern Strait of Malacca.

The new flooding is some of the worst flooding in the United States of the year, caused by tornadoes from mid-December through January.

About 50 people died at the time, 125,000 people were displaced and more than $1.45 billion was lost to experts.