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The 2008 Pacific typhoon season was a below average season which featured 22 named storms, eleven typhoons, and two super typhoons. The season had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 2008, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November. [1] These dates conventionally delimit the period of ...
This timeline documents all the storm formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, as well as dissipation during the 2008 Pacific typhoon season. The 2008 Pacific typhoon season officially started on January 1, 2008 and ended on January 1, 2009. The first tropical cyclone of the season formed on January 13.
Throughout 2008, 124 tropical cyclones have formed in bodies of water known as tropical cyclone basins. Of these, 83 have been named, by various weather agencies when they attained maximum sustained winds of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). The strongest storm of the year was Typhoon Jangmi in the Western Pacific Ocean.
The 2008 Pacific hurricane season was a near-average Pacific hurricane season which featured seventeen named storms, though most were rather weak and short-lived. Only seven storms became hurricanes, of which two intensified into major hurricanes. This season was also the first since 1996 to have no cyclones cross into the central Pacific ...
First official season to be included in the West Pacific typhoon database. 1946 – 15: 10 – TY Lilly: Unknown: Unknown: None: 1947 – 27: 19: 1 TY Rosalind: Unknown: Unknown: None: 1948 – 26: 15: 1 TY Karen: Unknown: Unknown: None: 1949: 33: 22: 14: 1 TY Allyn >1,790: $127 million TY Kitty TY Lise TS Madeline TY Nelly TY Omelia TY ...
Typhoon Fung-wong, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Igme, was a deadly typhoon in the 2008 Pacific typhoon season which made landfall on Taiwan and China. Typhoon Fung-wong reached peak intensity of a Category 2 typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with peak winds of 95 knots (176 km/h).
Typhoon Hagupit, (Tagalog: [hɐ.ɣʊˈpit], ha-ghu-PEET) known in the Philippines as Typhoon Nina, was a powerful cyclone that caused widespread destruction along its path in September 2008. The 21st depression, 14 tropical storm and 10th typhoon of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season , Hagupit developed from a tropical wave located a couple ...
Categories: Pacific typhoon seasons. 2008 in Asia. 2008 in Oceania. Tropical cyclones in 2008. 2008 disasters in Asia. 2008 disasters in Oceania. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata.