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Rai was a powerful rare tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines in mid-December 2021. Rai became the first Category 5-equivalent super typhoon to develop in the month of December since Nock-ten in 2016, and the third of four Category 5 super typhoons recorded in the South China Sea, along with Pamela in 1954, Rammasun in 2014 and Yagi in 2024.
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.
December 2–3, 2019: Typhoon Kammuri (Tisoy) passes through Visayas and the Bicol Region as a Category 4 typhoon. Heavy winds and flooding were reported throughout most of the country. December 24–25, 2019: Typhoon Phanfone (Ursula) passes through the Visayas archipelago as a Category 3 typhoon.
The typhoon is expected to reach the geographical region of the ocean monitored by the county, called the Philippines Area of Responsibility, tonight or tomorrow morning.
The Philippines is impacted by an average of 20 tropical storms per year. So far this year, nine storms have hit the country. Although the previous three typhoon seasons were below normal in the ...
Thousands of people were evacuated in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Man-yi brought destructive winds and rains to the South Asian nation struggling to recover from a series of powerful storms ...
A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least 119 km/h (74 mph). [1] This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, [2] accounting for almost one third of the world's tropical cyclones.
Due to the impacts of heavy rain and strong winds, Doksuri is a 3 on the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Tropical Cyclones in the northern Philippines and Taiwan and a 2 in southeast China.