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May 8–10, 2015: Typhoon Noul (Dodong) hits the northwestern tip of Luzon as a Category 5 super typhoon. July 4–6, 2015: Tropical Storm Linfa (Egay) affects Northern Luzon. 198 houses were damaged and power outages were experienced within the affected area. August 19–21, 2015: Typhoon Goni (Ineng) batters the northern portion of Luzon as a ...
Ahead of the typhoon's arrival in East China, officials evacuated over 1.1 million people. [148] Even though Chan-hom did not affect the Philippines, the typhoon enhanced the southwest monsoon which killed about 16 people and damages of about ₱3.9 million (US$86,000). [149]
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.
Typhoon Noul making landfall over the Philippines on May 10 May 10. 00:00 UTC — Both the JMA and the JTWC reports that Typhoon Noul had reached its peak intensity as a Category 5 super typhoon with 10-minute sustained windspeeds of 205 km/h (125 mph), which is the strongest this year in terms of windspeeds. .
Typhoon Koppu, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Lando, was a powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that struck Luzon in mid October 2015. It was the twenty-fourth named storm and the fifteenth typhoon of the annual typhoon season .
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.
Typhoon Maysak, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Chedeng, was the most powerful pre-April tropical cyclone on record in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The fourth named storm of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season , Maysak originated as a tropical depression on March 26.
Since 1963, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has assigned local names to a tropical cyclone should it move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N-25°N, even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it.