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The World Meteorological Organization designated the MFR as a Regional Tropical Cyclones Advisory Centre in 1988, and upgraded it to a Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in 1993. In May 1998, two Europe-based Meteosat satellites began providing complete coverage of the basin. On July 1, 2002, the MFR shifted the cyclone year to begin on ...
Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is called a hurricane (/ ˈ h ʌr ɪ k ən,-k eɪ n /), typhoon (/ t aɪ ˈ f uː n /), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply cyclone. A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean.
At 18:00 PHT on September 13, Bebinca entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility and was named Ferdie by PAGASA. Bebinca later strengthened into a minimal typhoon on the next day. On September 16, Bebinca landed in Shanghai, China as a weakening Category-1 typhoon, and became the strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since Typhoon Gloria of 1949.
The typhoon has also surpassed the strength of any storm recorded in 2022 and now stands equivalent to a category 5 super typhoon. #Mawar now up to 150 knots (175 mph) per latest JTWC advisory.
The West Pacific is the most active and the north Indian the least active. An average of 86 tropical cyclones of tropical storm intensity form annually worldwide, with 47 reaching hurricane/typhoon strength, and 20 becoming intense tropical cyclones, super typhoons, or major hurricanes (at least of Category 3 intensity). [1]
Typhoon Sarah, known as the Miyakojima Typhoon in Japan, was a destructive typhoon which was one of the strongest storms on record to strike South Korea and Russia. It formed during the peak of the busy 1959 Pacific typhoon season near Guam , and moved generally to the west-northwest.
Tropical Storm Man-yi now looks to track toward the west-northwest this weekend with landfall possible in Luzon on Sunday as a Category 3 hurricane equivalent (110-129 mph/178-207 km/h) on the ...
The cyclones on the lower and upper right are typhoons. A typhoon is a ... of the world's tropical cyclones ... for typhoon recorded in a chronicle in 1762, now ...