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April 17–19, 2021: Typhoon Surigae (Bising) brushes the eastern part of the Philippines, killing 10 people. May 13, 2021: Tropical Storm Crising made landfall over Mindanao as a weak system, bringing damages estimated at ₱23.2 million (US$486,000). [37] June 1–2, 2021: Tropical Storm Choi-wan (Dante) traversed much of Visayas and northern ...
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 2021 Pacific typhoon season was the second consecutive season to have below average tropical cyclone activity, with twenty-two named storms, and was the least active since 2011. Nine became typhoons, and five of those intensified into super typhoons. This low activity was caused by a strong La Niña that had persisted from the previous year.
2021 North Indian Ocean cyclone season map. On April 2, a tropical depression formed in the north Andaman Sea near the Myanmar coast. It remained short-lived, however, dissipating the next day. It was the fourth system to form within the first fifteen days of April since the satellite era began in 1960.
Typhoon Chanthu, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Kiko, [1] was the second most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2021 after Typhoon Surigae in April. It impacted the Cagayan Valley region of the Philippines and became the strongest typhoon to affect the Batanes province since Typhoon Meranti in 2016.
Typhoon Surigae continued its sluggish northward journey early Wednesday, local time, as the storm continued to lash the Philippines with rough surf, heavy rain and strong winds for the fifth ...
Severe Tropical Storm Kompasu, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Maring was a very large and deadly tropical cyclone that affected the Philippines, Taiwan, and southeast China. Part of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season , Kompasu originated from an area of low pressure east of the Philippines on 6 October 2021.
A super typhoon ripped through 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 cause ...