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The name Auring, a female nickname, has been used for sixteen tropical cyclones in the Philippines by PAGASA and its predecessor, the Philippine Weather Bureau, in the Western Pacific Ocean. Typhoon Polly (1963) (T6302, 09W, Auring) Tropical Storm Ruby (1967) (T6701, 01W, Auring) Tropical Storm Sarah (1971) (T7101, 01W, Auring)
Severe Tropical Storm Dujuan, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Auring, was a tropical storm which caused heavy rain in the Philippines and Palau in mid February 2021, leading to minor damage. Dujuan was the second depression and first named storm of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season. Dujuan started as a tropical depression in the ...
Polly was the first storm ever to be locally named by the Philippine Weather Bureau, receiving the name Auring. Remaining offshore Japan, Polly's impacts were caused primarily by heavy rainfall. Flooding inundated caused 807 landslides and inundated over 36,000 homes. Another 11 houses and 270 bridges were washed away by the floods.
The 2001 Pacific typhoon season was an average season with twenty-six named storms, sixteen typhoons and three super typhoons, with a near normal Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) of 307.3 units. [1] It ran year-round in 2001, with most tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean tending between May and November.
Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph).
Naming continued through the next few years, and in 1950, names also started to be assigned to tropical storms forming in the northern Atlantic Ocean. In the Atlantic, names were originally taken from the World War II version of the phonetic alphabet, but this was changed in 1953 to use lists of women's names which were created yearly. Around ...
By February 17, the system moved into the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), and was assigned the local name Auring from the PAGASA. [12] At 06:00 UTC on the same day, the JTWC upgraded the system to a tropical depression, giving it the designation 01W. The system was later named Dujuan as the first named storm of 2021. The PAGASA later ...
About 43,851 people were affected by the storm, mainly along the Cagayan River. [19] The remnants of Auring brought heavy rains to the flooded areas again on January 7, triggering several landslides which blocked off roads and damaging power lines, leaving parts of the Catanduanes without power for several hours. [20]