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The 2024 Pacific typhoon season was the fifth ... which can result in a tropical cyclone having two names. [371] The Japan Meteorological Agency's RSMC Tokyo ...
Typhoon Shanshan was a powerful tropical cyclone that moved through Japan in late August 2024. The tenth named storm and fourth typhoon of the annual typhoon season , Shanshan was first noted near the Mariana Islands on August 20, with deep convection beginning to consolidate.
Tropical cyclones formed in February 2024 Storm name Dates active Max wind km/h (mph) Pressure (hPa) Areas affected Damage Deaths Refs Nat: February 3–10 95 (60) 985 Samoa, American Samoa, Southern Cook Islands, French Polynesia: None None 07F: February 5–8 Unknown 1002 French Polynesia: None None Osai: February 6–12 85 (50) 991
Typhoon Ampil was a powerful tropical cyclone that threatened Japan's Tokyo Metropolitan Area since Faxai in 2019 and brought torrential gusty winds to Alaska in early August 2024. The seventh named storm and third typhoon of the annual typhoon season .
2019 Typhoon Hagibis. Japan is one of the countries frequently hit by typhoons, with the nation giving its own names to particularly destructive storms.. Since records began in 1951, an average of 2.6 typhoons reached the main islands of Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido per year.
A bus is seen submerged in floodwaters in Yufu city of Oita prefecture on August 29, 2024. Typhoon Shanshan, one of Japan's strongest typhoons in decades, dumped torrential rain across southern ...
Before the formal start of naming, tropical cyclones were often named after places, objects, or saints' feast days on which they occurred. The credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is generally given to the Queensland Government meteorologist Clement Wragge, who named systems between 1887 and 1907.
Between 1947 and 2000, eleven names of significant tropical cyclones were retired from the list of names used by the United States Joint Typhoon Warning Center. [10] During this time other names were removed from the naming lists, including in 1979 when the lists of names used were revised to include both male and female names.