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Typhoon Maemi (pronounced) or (pronounced), known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pogi, [1] was the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea since record-keeping began in the country in 1904. Maemi formed on 4 September 2003, from a disturbance in a monsoon trough in the western Pacific Ocean .
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 Bavi approaching South Korea as a Category 3 typhoon in August 2020. The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula region located over Eastern Asia. The region is divided into North Korea and South Korea. Climatologically, in the Northwest Pacific basin, most tropical cyclones tend to develop between May and October. Typhoons impacting this ...
A devastating typhoon that tore through the Philippines, Taiwan and China last month, destroying infrastructure and leaving more than 100 people dead, was made significantly worse by human-induced ...
Maemi (Pogi) September 4–13 195 (120) 910 Japan, South Korea, North Korea $4.1 billion 120 Isabel: September 6–19 270 (165) 915 Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas, East coast of the United States, Atlantic Canada $3.6 billion 51 TD: September 7–8 1002 Vietnam None None Fourteen: September 8–10 55 (35 ...
Typhoon Gaemi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Carina, was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone which impacted East China, Taiwan, and the Philippines in late July 2024. Gaemi, which means ant in Korean, the third named storm and second typhoon of the annual typhoon season , formed as a tropical depression east of Palau on July 19.
The typhoon has also surpassed the strength of any storm recorded in 2022 and now stands equivalent to a category 5 super typhoon. #Mawar now up to 150 knots (175 mph) per latest JTWC advisory.
That super typhoon — defined as having wind speed of above 240 kilometers per hour or 150 miles per hour — killed at least 62 people across Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces ...