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Rammasun was also recognised as the third tropical storm, the second typhoon and the first super typhoon of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). Rammasun formed on May 5 as a tropical disturbance. The next day the Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued a tropical cyclone formation alert on
Rapid intensification continued and it strengthened into a Category 4-equivalent typhoon by early on May 10, [35] and a super typhoon by midday. [36] Rammasun continued on a northerly path, and reached a peak of 105 knots (194 km/h) and 915 hPa on May 10. [23] Soon after, the typhoon began slowly weakening.
The 2008 Pacific typhoon season officially started on January 1, 2008 and ended on January 1, 2009. The first tropical cyclone of the season formed on January 13. The timeline also includes information which was not operationally released, meaning that information from post-storm reviews by the various warning agencies, such as information on a ...
2008 Pacific typhoon season summary map. The 2008 Pacific typhoon season was a below average season which featured 22 named storms, eleven typhoons, and two super typhoons. The first tropical depression of the season, formed in mid January to the west of the Philippines.
Typhoon Rammasun, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Glenda, was one of the only four Category 5 super typhoons on record in the South China Sea, with the other ones being Pamela in 1954, Rai in 2021 and Yagi in 2024. Rammasun had destructive impacts across the Philippines, South China, and Vietnam in July 2014.
October 23–24, 2012: Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (Ofel) passes by the central part of the country, with Tropical Cyclone Signal No. 2 being raised in much of Visayas. December 3–4, 2012: Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) becomes the strongest tropical cyclone on record to affect Mindanao. Extensive and widespread damage was reported in that archipelago and ...
A historic “bomb cyclone” has caused multiple deaths and mass power outages after slamming into Seattle, Washington, as it charts a destructive path through California and Oregon.
Pages in category "2008 Pacific typhoon season" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Typhoon Rammasun (2008) S. Typhoon Sinlaku (2008) ...