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Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Odette, [1] was a deadly and extremely destructive super typhoon, which was the second costliest typhoon in Philippine history behind Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Rai was a powerful rare tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines in December 2021. Rai became the first Category 5-equivalent ...
Tropical Storm Rai (2016) (T1615, 19W) – a short-lived storm that made landfall on Indochina. Typhoon Rai (2021) (T2122, 28W, Odette) – a powerful Category 5-equivalent super typhoon that caused severe and widespread damage in the Southern and Central Philippines. In 2023, the name Rai was announced to be retired and will no longer be used. [1]
Since 1963, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has assigned local names to a tropical cyclone should it move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N-25°N, even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it.
Horrors continued to emerge over the weekend as the scope of the utter destruction left behind by Super Typhoon Rai in the Philippines came clearly into view. The fierce storm, described as "one ...
Super Typhoon Rai rapidly strengthened as it made a beeline for the Philippines Thursday, local time, reaching the equivalent strength of a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane ...
Footage shared by the Philippine Coast Guard showed parts of the popular holiday island of Siargao, one of the areas where Rai first made landfall as a Category 5 typhoon, inundated with floods ...
Typhoon Rai (Odette) at its peak intensity while approaching the Philippines on December 16, 2021. January 19–20, 2021: an unnamed tropical depression affected much of Visayas and Northern Mindanao. Heavy rainfall from the system resulted in one death and agricultural damages of up to ₱642.5 million (US$13.2 million). [36]
On Monday, the Philippine government raised the number of confirmed deaths from Rai to 388. There are an additional 60 people still missing and an estimated 500,000 left homeless after winds or ...