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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.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration classified typhoons into two categories: a typhoon or a super typhoon if sustained winds are over 241 kilometers per hour (150 mph). Parts of ...
Since 2009 the Hong Kong Observatory has divided typhoons into three different classifications: typhoon, severe typhoon and super typhoon. [20] A typhoon has wind speed of 64–79 knots (73–91 mph; 118–149 km/h), a severe typhoon has winds of at least 80 knots (92 mph; 150 km/h), and a super typhoon has winds of at least 100 knots (120 mph ...
August 26–27, 2011: Typhoon Nanmadol (Mina) neared Northern Luzon with its peak intensity as a Category 5 super typhoon. 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]
The Philippines is impacted by an average of 20 tropical storms per year. So far this year, nine storms have hit the country. Although the previous three typhoon seasons were below normal in the ...
A super typhoon is equivalent to a category 5 hurricane, while the current speed of the cyclone puts it in category 4. The weather agency expects the cyclone to go further down in intensity as it ...
Typhoon Yagi, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Enteng and in Vietnam as Typhoon No. 3 of 2024 (Vietnamese: Bão số 3 năm 2024), was a deadly and extremely destructive tropical cyclone which impacted Southeast Asia and South China in early September 2024.
Typhoon Mawar, which pounded Guam with destructive winds and flooding downpours earlier this week, is continuing to churn west across the Pacific Ocean and will impact more landmasses in the ...