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The typhoon brought damaging winds which killed 35 people and infrastructural losses of Php40.9 billion (US$907.9 million), making it one of the costliest typhoons in the Philippines. [ 14 ] September 26–27, 2011: Typhoon Nesat (Pedring) brought flash flooding over Central Luzon and Metro Manila .
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.
Typhoon Tip, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Warling, ... Tip was the largest tropical cyclone on record, with a wind diameter of 2,220 km (1,380 mi).
Man-Yi is the sixth typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month, with at least 160 people known to have died in the five previous storms. ... It was also the biggest typhoon to directly hit Taiwan ...
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 ...
Typhoons in the Philippines. Typhoon Axel (Garding; 1994) – last typhoon to make landfall over Leyte prior to Haiyan; Tropical Storm Thelma (Uring; 1991) – second deadliest Philippine tropical cyclone [327] [328] Typhoon Son-Tinh (Ofel; 2012) – Struck the same area during the previous year, and had a track similar to Haiyan's.
More than 400,000 people in the Philippines were forced to flee their homes as powerful typhoon Man-yi slammed into the eastern island province of Catanduanes wrecking houses and causing towering ...
Kong-rey was the first typhoon in Taiwan's history to make landfall after mid-October and the largest storm to strike since Typhoon Herb in 1996. Additionally, it was the second tropical cyclone in a series to impact the Philippines, following Tropical Storm Trami a few days earlier, and preceding Typhoons Yinxing , Toraji , Usagi , and Man-yi ...