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10 photos showing deadly Typhoon Yagi's destructive power. Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit Asia this year, made landfall on the coast of China's Hainan province on Friday. The storm ...
Typhoon Tip, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Warling, was a large, extremely powerful, and long-lived tropical cyclone that traversed the Western Pacific for 20 days. The forty-third tropical depression, nineteenth tropical storm, twelfth typhoon, and third super typhoon of the 1979 Pacific typhoon season , Tip developed out of a ...
Yagi is the strongest typhoon to make landfall on the island since Rammasun in 2014. That super typhoon — defined as having wind speed of above 240 kilometers per hour or 150 miles per hour ...
Typhoon Yagi swept across southeast Asia this week, with heavy rain triggering landslides and flash floods that have left hundreds of people dead. In Vietnam, the death toll climbed to more than ...
Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) on November 7, 2013, one of the strongest Pacific typhoons ever recorded.. Since 1947, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) has classified all typhoons in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean with wind speeds of at least 130 knots (67 m/s; 150 mph; 240 km/h)—the equivalent of a strong Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson scale, as super typhoons. [1]
The typhoon caused some light damage to buildings, particularly on the south side of the island. The combination of winds and sea salt caused damage to the island's tomato, okra, cucumber, and soy bean crops. [55] December 17, 1997: Typhoon Paka destroyed around 1,500 buildings on the island, [56] of which 1,160 were single-family homes. [57]
Dozens of people have died after Typhoon Gaemi made landfall on Thursday in Taiwan and China, according to the Associated Press. Gaemi packed wind gusts of up to 141 mph as it lashed Taiwan, and ...
The most intense storm by lowest pressure and peak 10-minute sustained winds was Typhoon Tip, which was also the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in terms of minimum central pressure. Storms with a minimum pressure of 899 hPa (26.55 inHg) or less are listed. Storm information was less reliably documented and recorded before 1950. [6]