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Pacific typhoons have formed year-round, with peak months from August to October. The peak months correspond to that of the Atlantic hurricane seasons. Along with a high storm frequency, this basin also features the most globally intense storms on record. One of the most recent busy seasons was 2013. Tropical cyclones form in any month of the ...
After a month of inactivity, at 15:00 UTC on December 16, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert, designating the system as Invest 96W. [341] The next day, it became a depression and entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility , which PAGASA named Querubin , [ 342 ] a replacement name for Quinta .
In August 2006, Typhoon Saomai became the strongest typhoon on record to strike China, with a central pressure of 920 mbar (27 inHg) and winds of 215 km/h (134 mph) at its landfall in Zhejiang. It produced wind gusts of 293 km/h (182 mph) in Wenzhou. The typhoon killed 456 people and left more than US$4.2 billion in damage. [131]
The month of September sees an average of 3 storms a year. By September 24, the average Atlantic season features 7 named tropical storms, including 4 hurricanes. In addition, two major hurricanes occur on average by 28 September. Relatively few tropical cyclones make landfall at these intensities. [6]
Four simultaneously active tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific on November 11, the first to happen in November since records began in 1951. From left to right: Typhoons Yinxing, Toraji, Usagi and Man-yi. During 2024, tropical cyclones formed in seven major bodies of water, commonly known as tropical cyclone basins.
In the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans, the word “hurricane” is used, the Western North Pacific calling the system’s “typhoons,” and the western South Pacific and Indian oceans deem ...
This happened in 2014 for Hurricane Genevieve, which became Typhoon Genevieve. [ 113 ] Within the Southern Hemisphere, it is either called a hurricane, tropical cyclone or a severe tropical cyclone, depending on if it is located within the South Atlantic, South-West Indian Ocean, Australian region or the South Pacific Ocean.
One of this year’s most powerful storms made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, after killing at least four people and injuring at least 95 others in southern China, according to state media.