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September 20, 2013: Typhoon Usagi (Odette) brushes Batanes as a Category 4 super typhoon. October 10–11, 2013: Typhoon Nari (Santi) strikes and batters Luzon from a Category 3 typhoon. Gusty winds caused damages of up to Php3.3 billion (US$77 million). [19] October 31, 2013: Typhoon Krosa (Vinta) makes landfall over the northwestern tip of ...
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.
Category 4 is the second-highest hurricane classification category on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and storms that are of this intensity maintain maximum sustained winds of 113–136 knots (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h). Based on the Atlantic hurricane database, 144 hurricanes have attained Category 4 hurricane status since 1851, the ...
Typhoon Man-yi, known as Pepito in the Philippines, is now the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane (96-109 mph/154-176 km/h) on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale and will continue to ...
Category 4 is the second highest classification on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale and the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale. The following lists show tropical cyclones that have reached that intensity in Earth's ocean basins. List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes; List of Category 4 Pacific hurricanes
2011 – struck the Philippines as a Category 4 super typhoon and later affected Hainan, China as a weak tropical storm. 2019 – developed west of the main Philippine Islands and made landfall in Southern Vietnam. Quinta; 2004 – made landfall in Japan as a Category 2 typhoon; 2008 – renamed Siony; mostly stayed out at sea
4.1 Philippines. 4.1.1 Environmental ... Category 4 (130–156 mph ... "Typhoons, hurricanes and all tropical storms draw their vast energy from the warmth of the sea.
The practice of retiring significant names was started during 1955 by the United States Weather Bureau in the Atlantic Ocean, after hurricanes Carol, Edna, and Hazel struck the Northeastern United States and caused a significant amount of damage in the previous year. [4] Initially the names were only designed to be retired for ten years after ...