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Part of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season. Typhoon Khanun (Thai: ขนุน), known in the Philippines as Typhoon Falcon, was a powerful, erratic and long-lived tropical cyclone that moved along Okinawa, Japan and the west coast of the Korean Peninsula in August 2023. It was the sixth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon ...
The 2024 Pacific typhoon season is an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the western Pacific Ocean. It is the fifth-latest starting Pacific typhoon season on record, as well as the deadliest since 2013, the most active since 2019, and the fifth-costliest Pacific typhoon season on record, mostly due to Yagi.
The 2023 Pacific typhoon season was the fourth and final consecutive below-average season and became the third-least active typhoon season on record in terms of named storms, with just 17 named storms developing, only ahead of 2010 and 1998.
From Tuesday to Thursday, local time, rainfall has already reached 13.55 inches (344.2 mm) in Okinawa. Additional rainfall through the week can bring rain totals to 15-20 inches (350-500 mm ...
May 31, 2023 at 12:26 AM. NAHA, Japan (AP) — Typhoon Mawar appeared to be losing force as it headed Wednesday toward Japan's Okinawa Islands, where the United States maintains a significant ...
The 2021 Pacific typhoon season was the second consecutive season to have below average tropical cyclone activity, with twenty-two named storms, and was the least active since 2011. Nine became typhoons, and five of those intensified into super typhoons. This low activity was caused by a strong La Niña that had persisted from the previous year.
The 2020 Pacific typhoon season was the first of an series of four below average Pacific typhoon seasons, and became the first with below-average tropical cyclone activity since 2014, with 23 named storms, 10 of which became typhoons and only 2 became super typhoons. This low activity was a consequence of La Niña that persisted from the summer ...
2022 Pacific typhoon season. The 2022 Pacific typhoon season was the third consecutive season to have below average tropical cyclone activity, with twenty-five named storms forming. Of the tropical storms, ten became typhoons, and three would intensify into super typhoons. The season saw near-average activity by named storm count, although many ...