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Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second-most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, causing $1.15 billion in damages and 665 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the season, which caused 956 deaths and damages worth $6.2 billion. Ketsana was the sixteenth tropical storm ...
Typhoon Kiko only brushed the northern part of the Philippine's area of Responsibility while enhancing the southwest monsoon, which caused heavy flooding throughout the country. During late-September, combined with the enhancement of the monsoon, Ondoy formed and affected most of the country with an extreme death toll and extensive damages.
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.
At least 13 people have died in the Philippines due to tropical storm Yagi, while schools and government offices were closed in Manila and nearby provinces on Tuesday because of expected bad weather.
At least 197 people have been killed by Typhoon Yagi's inundations in Vietnam alone, ... as the death toll passed 200. In worst-hit Vietnam alone the fatalities rose to 197, with nine confirmed ...
Typhoon Rai (Odette) at its peak intensity while approaching the Philippines on December 16, 2021. January 19–20, 2021: an unnamed tropical depression affected much of Visayas and Northern Mindanao. Heavy rainfall from the system resulted in one death and agricultural damages of up to ₱642.5 million (US$13.2 million). [36]
Severe floods are expected to inundate parts of Vietnam's north, including the capital Hanoi, government officials said, as the aftermath of typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit Asia so ...
The typhoon killed 456 people and left more than US$4.2 billion in damage. [131] China's costliest typhoon on record was Typhoon Fitow in 2013, which inflicted ¥63.1 billion in damage (US$10.4 billion) when it struck Wenzhou as the most powerful October landfall in mainland China. [132]