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The 2024 Pacific typhoon season was the fifth-latest starting Pacific typhoon season on record, yet featured average activity, ending the streak of below average typhoon seasons that started in 2020. It was also the deadliest season since 2013 , and became the fourth-costliest Pacific typhoon season on record, mostly due to Typhoon Yagi .
2024 Atlantic hurricane season summary map. Though the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, it got off to the slowest start since 2014. This was due to a large stationary heat dome over Central America and Mexico, as tropical cyclogenesis in June often occurs over the Gulf of Mexico and northern Caribbean Sea. [10]
At ―PAGASA upgrades Gaemi (Carina) to super-typhoon strength with 10-minute sustained winds of 185 kilometres per hour (100 kn; 115 mph 12:00 UTC At 23°42′N 121°42′E / 23.7°N 121.7°E / 23.7; 121.7 ( Gaemi weakens to a Category 3 typhoon ) ― Typhoon Gaemi (Carina) has weakened to a high-end Category 3 typhoon as it ...
Typhoon Jebi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Maymay, was the costliest typhoon in Japan's history in terms of insured losses. Jebi formed from a tropical disturbance south-southwest of Wake Island on August 26 and became the twenty-first named storm of the 2018 Pacific typhoon season on August 27.
Ernesto is the fifth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. ... north-northeast at 6 miles per hour, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, the NHC said, a significant weakening from ...
Tropical Storm Jebi (2013) (T1309, 09W, Jolina) – struck the Philippines, mainland China and Vietnam; Typhoon Jebi (2018) (T1821, 25W, Maymay) – a strong Category 5 typhoon that made landfall in west Japan, becoming the third costliest typhoon in nominal terms; Typhoon Jebi (2024) (T2417, 19W) – a minimal typhoon passed off the coast of Japan
Hurricane Helene, which struck the US, Cuba and Mexico in September, caused at least $55bn in losses as well as 232 fatalities. Floods in China caused a loss of $15.6bn and claimed 315 lives.
Officials in the key port city of Kaohsiung, set to be in the eye of the storm, told people to stay home and avoid the sea, rivers and mountains, warning of a repeat of 1977's Typhoon Thelma that ...