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Typhoon Cobra, also known as the Typhoon of 1944 or Halsey's Typhoon (named after Admiral William Halsey Jr.), was the United States Navy designation for a powerful tropical cyclone that struck the United States Pacific Fleet in December 1944, during World War II. The storm sank three destroyers, killed 790 sailors, damaged 9 other warships ...
The Philippines is a Typhoon (Tropical Cyclone)-prone country, with approximately 20 Tropical Cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
Typhoon Rai (Odette) at its peak intensity while approaching the Philippines on December 16, 2021. January 19–20, 2021: an unnamed tropical depression affected much of Visayas and Northern Mindanao. Heavy rainfall from the system resulted in one death and agricultural damages of up to ₱642.5 million (US$13.2 million). [36]
The Philippines faced six back to back typhoons in just 23 days last month, an unprecedented onslaught of storms that scientists say were fueled by unusually hot oceans and higher air humidity ...
The Philippines is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia, beside the northwest Pacific Ocean. The nation consists of 7,641 islands. The nation consists of 7,641 islands. The country is known to be "the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms", with about twenty tropical cyclones entering the Philippine area of ...
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 ...
Tropical Storm Man-yi now looks to track toward the west-northwest this weekend with landfall possible in Luzon on Sunday as a Category 3 hurricane equivalent (110-129 mph/178-207 km/h) on the ...
Since 1963, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has assigned local names to a tropical cyclone should it move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N-25°N, even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it.