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Typhoon Parma, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pepeng, was the second-wettest typhoon to affect the Philippines, and the second typhoon to affect the country within the span of a week during September 2009.
November 11, 2020: Typhoon Vamco (Ulysses) caused the worst flooding in Metro Manila since 2009. 98 people were killed and damages of ₱20.3 billion (US$421 million), the sixth costliest Philippine typhoon on record. December 18–19, 2020: Tropical Depression Vicky caused flooding and several landslides over southern Philippines. Nine people ...
The Philippines is a Typhoon (Tropical Cyclone)-prone country, with approximately 20 Tropical Cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
However, two, Ketsana and Parma, reached typhoon intensity; both stayed away from land. [25] [26] November featured less storms but was climatologically average, with two typhoons developing. [27] The second typhoon, Lupit, devastated portions of Yap State, resulting in approximately $1.7 million in damage. [28]
A super typhoon ripped through Philippines’ largest island on Sunday, knocking down houses and sending more than half a million people to emergency shelters, as rare back-to-back storms cause ...
Typhoon Parma (2009) (T0917, 19W, Pepeng) – another erratic typhoon that traversed the Northern Philippines, made landfall on the island of Hainan, China, and then in Vietnam, causing 500 fatalities. The name Parma was retired after the 2009 typhoon season, and replaced by In-fa in the 2015 season.
The Philippines issued fresh weather warnings on November 12 as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago, days after thousands were evacuated ahead of Typhoon Toraji.
Lupit (Ramil) was the next typhoon to directly hit any part of the Philippines, [68] having threatened the areas already ravaged by Typhoon Parma. While initially forecasted by PAGASA to cross Cagayan or Batanes by, [ 69 ] Ramil eventually veered northeast in spite of strengthening, sparing the areas still recovering from Pepeng's wrath.