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The 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods (informally known in Tagalog as Hagupít ng Habagat, "wrath of the monsoon" and Bagsík ng Habagat, "fierceness of the monsoon", from habagat, the Filipino term for the southwest monsoon), was an eight-day period of torrential rain and thunderstorms in Luzon in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012.
This made Haiyan the strongest storm globally to make landfall, in terms of 1-minute sustained wind speeds, until the record was broken by Super Typhoon Rolly (Goni) 7 years later. Upon impact, the storm produced a large storm surge, which was a primary cause for the abnormally high death toll of nearly 7,000 people Haiyan caused in the ...
Cyclones. Extratropical cyclone. European windstorms; Australian East Coast Low "Medicane", Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones Polar cyclone; Tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, typhoon, or just "cyclone"
A super typhoon ripped through the Philippines’ largest island on Sunday, knocking down houses and sending more than half a million people to emergency shelters, as rare back-to-back storms ...
Typhoon Yinxing, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Marce, was a powerful tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines before later affecting Vietnam in early November 2024. It was the third tropical cyclone in a series to impact the Philippines, following Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoon Kong-rey a few days earlier, and Typhoons Toraji ...
Beaches were closed during the storm's passage, and boats rode out the storm at port. [28] Precipitation from the typhoon fell over three days, reaching 85 mm (3.3 in). Five surfers required rescues amid high seas, with a peak storm surge of 0.91 m (3.0 ft). There were 14 injuries related to Babs in the territory. [13]
Tracks of typhoons that affected the Philippines during late 2006. July 12–13, 2006: The outflow of Tropical Storm Bilis (Florita) brought torrential rainfall over Baguio and Manila. 14 people were killed. [9] July 18, 2006: Similar to the precursor storm, the outflow of Typhoon Kaemi (Glenda) produced rainfall over Luzon. [10]
Caroline Islands, Yap, Philippines, Taiwan, South China Part of the 1969 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Viola , known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Elang and in Mainland China as the Niutianyang Wind Disaster , was a destructive and deadly tropical cyclone that is estimated to have killed over 10,000 individuals in Guangdong , another 20 ...