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Since 1963, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has assigned local names to a tropical cyclone should it move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N-25°N, even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it.
The Philippines is a typhoon-prone country, with approximately twenty tropical cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less often, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
October 23–24, 2012: Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (Ofel) passes by the central part of the country, with Tropical Cyclone Signal No. 2 being raised in much of Visayas. December 3–4, 2012: Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) becomes the strongest tropical cyclone on record to affect Mindanao. Extensive and widespread damage was reported in that archipelago and ...
Typhoon Mawar now moving at 10kmh, PAGASA says in latest advisory. ... The state weather bureau assigns each Philippine typhoon name alphabetically to determine the number of typhoons that enter ...
The name Enteng has been used in the Philippines by PAGASA in the Western Pacific. Severe Tropical Storm Omais (2004) (T0403, 06W, Enteng) – stayed at sea. Typhoon Nakri (2008) (T0805, 06W, Enteng) – a very strong typhoon that didn't affect land.
PAGASA names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N and 25°N even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it. [3] The names of significant tropical cyclones are retired, by both PAGASA and the Typhoon Committee. [4]
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N–25°N, regardless of whether or not a tropical cyclone has already been ...
The first are the international names assigned to a tropical cyclone by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). The second set of names are local names assigned to a tropical cyclone by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. This system often ends up with a ...