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The 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods (informally known in Tagalog as Hagupít ng Habagat, "wrath of the monsoon" and Bagsík ng Habagat, "fierceness of the monsoon", from habagat, the Filipino term for the southwest monsoon), was an eight-day period of torrential rain and thunderstorms in Luzon in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012.
This made Haiyan the strongest storm globally to make landfall, in terms of 1-minute sustained wind speeds, until the record was broken by Super Typhoon Rolly (Goni) 7 years later. Upon impact, the storm produced a large storm surge, which was a primary cause for the abnormally high death toll of nearly 7,000 people Haiyan caused in the ...
August 7–8, 1998: Tropical Storm Penny (Klaring) made landfall in Cagayan. September 18–19, 1998: Typhoon Vicki (Gading) made landfall over in the Ilocos Region. The storm was known to sink the ferry MV Princess of the Orient during the onslaught of the typhoon, killing 70 and leaving 80 others missing and presumed dead. [25]
Typhoon Yinxing, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Marce, was a powerful tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines before later affecting Vietnam in early November 2024. It was the third tropical cyclone in a series to impact the Philippines, following Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoon Kong-rey a few days earlier, and Typhoons Toraji ...
Caroline Islands, Yap, Philippines, Taiwan, South China Part of the 1969 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Viola , known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Elang and in Mainland China as the Niutianyang Wind Disaster , was a destructive and deadly tropical cyclone that is estimated to have killed over 10,000 individuals in Guangdong , another 20 ...
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A super typhoon ripped through the 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 ...
Typhoon Mitag, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Mina, was a strong typhoon that caused deadly flooding in the Philippines in late November 2007.As the twenty-fourth named storm and the fourteenth typhoon of the 2007 Pacific typhoon season, it originated from an area of atmospheric convection south-southwest of Guam.