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Typhoon Meranti, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Ferdie, was one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record. Impacting the Batanes in the Philippines, Taiwan, as well as Fujian Province in September 2016, Meranti formed as a tropical depression on September 8 near the island of Guam. Tracking to the west northwest, Meranti ...
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]
Typhoon Tip at its record peak intensity on October 12. 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.
The name Meranti was used to name three tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was contributed by Malaysia , which refers to a type of tree. Typhoon Meranti (2004) (T0412, 14W) – a typhoon which stayed at sea throughout its lifetime, and also the first of a record nine named storms to form during the 2004 season .
Of the 197 hurricanes classified as Category 5 from 1980 to 2021, five fit the description of a hypothetical Category 6 hurricane: Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, Hurricane Patricia in 2015, Typhoon ...
November 29–30, 2006: Typhoon Durian (Reming) badly impacts the Bicol Region as a Category 4 super typhoon. The typhoon caused massive loss of life when mudflows from the Mayon Volcano buried many villages. December 9–10, 2006: Typhoon Utor (Seniang) swept through much of Visayas. Only 38 people died from the typhoon.
Yagi is expected to be the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Hainan since Typhoon Rammasun in 2014. That super typhoon killed at least 62 people across Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan ...
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 ...