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The 2023 Pacific typhoon season was the fourth consecutive below-average season and became the third-most inactive typhoon season on record in terms of named storms, with just 17 named storms developing, only ahead of 2010 and 1998. Despite the season occurring during an El Niño event, which typically favors activity in the basin, activity was ...
The 2023 Pacific hurricane season was an active and destructive Pacific hurricane season. In the Eastern Pacific basin (east of 140°W), 17 named storms formed; 10 of those became hurricanes, of which 8 strengthened into major hurricanes – double the seasonal average. [nb 1][2] In the Central Pacific basin (between 140°W and the ...
Many computer model forecasts indeed show large amounts of moisture from the Pacific Ocean streaming across Central America and heading into the Caribbean Sea sometime next week to form a ...
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean have become more La Nina-like in recent weeks, but if the weather pattern does form, it is likely to be weak and short-lived, Australia's weather bureau said. La ...
During 2023, tropical cyclones formed in seven major bodies of water, commonly known as tropical cyclone basins. They were named by various weather agencies when they attained maximum sustained winds of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). Throughout the year, a total of 115 systems formed, with 79 of them being named.
A flurry of tropical activity has the Eastern Pacific Ocean making up for lost time. However, the season is still behind in named storms, as there are normally nine named storms before the end of ...
It was the sixth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season. Khanun started as a low-pressure area in the Pacific Ocean. It rapidly intensified into a Category 4-equivalent typhoon on the Saffir–Simpson scale over the Philippine Sea on August 1, before undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle.
Above-average temperatures in the northeastern South Pacific were recorded in March 2023. [21] The average sea temperature of the North Atlantic Ocean was 19.9 °C (67.8 °F) on 5 March, exceeding the previous record set in 2020 by 0.1 °C.