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Typhoon Yagi, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Enteng, was a deadly and extremely destructive tropical cyclone which impacted Southeast Asia and South China in early September 2024. Yagi, which means goat or the constellation of Capricornus in Japanese , was the eleventh named storm , the first violent typhoon , and the first ...
Typhoon Bebinca, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ferdie, was a strong tropical cyclone that affected East China, Guam, Philippines and the Ryukyu Islands in early September 2024. Bebinca made landfall in Shanghai, China, becoming the strongest typhoon to hit the city since Typhoon Gloria in 1949.
The Copernicus Programme reported that 2024 continued 2023's series of record high global average sea surface temperatures. [12]2024 Southeast Asia heat wave. For the first time, in each month in a 12-month period (through June 2024), Earth’s average temperature exceeded 1.50 °C (2.70 °F) above the pre-industrial baseline.
The 2024 Pacific typhoon season is an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the western Pacific Ocean.It is the fifth-latest starting Pacific typhoon season on record, the first season since 2019 to be average in terms of named storms typhoons and super typhoons as well as the deadliest since 2013, and the fourth-costliest Pacific typhoon season on record, mostly ...
13 September – The National People's Congress approves the raising of the statutory retirement age starting in 2025. [79] 16 September – At least two people are killed after Typhoon Bebinca makes landfall in Shanghai. [80] 18 September – A ten-year old student of a Japanese school dies in a knife attack in Shenzhen. The suspect is ...
Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey, went 42 days without measurable rain (at least 0.01 inches) from late September into early November, making it the longest such stretch in more than 150 years ...
The Beijing Weather Modification Office form a part of China's nationwide weather control effort, believed to be the world's largest; it employs 37,000 people nationwide, who seed clouds by firing rockets and shells loaded with silver iodide into them. [4]
Hardiness zones in China. The northern extremities of both Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia have a subarctic climate [5] with long, severe winters, and short, warm summers. [6] In contrast, most of Hainan Island and parts of the extreme southern fringes of Yunnan have a tropical climate. [5]