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Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second-most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, causing $1.15 billion in damages and 665 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the season, which caused 956 deaths and damages worth $6.2 billion. Ketsana was the sixteenth tropical storm ...
During late-September, combined with the enhancement of the monsoon, Ondoy formed and affected most of the country with an extreme death toll and extensive damages. Typhoons Pepeng and Quedan formed along a week after Ondoy, but both typhoons interacted together which made Pepeng affect northern Luzon for a long time. During late-October to ...
Ketsana shortly before being upgraded to a typhoon on September 28. Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second most devastating tropical cyclone in the 2009 Pacific typhoon season with a damage of $1.09 billion and 747 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the season, which caused 789 deaths and damages worth $6.2 billion.
Typhoon Parma, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pepeng, was the second-wettest typhoon to affect the Philippines, and the second typhoon to affect the country within the span of a week during September 2009.
The Philippines is a typhoon-prone country, with approximately twenty tropical cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less often, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
Thousands of residents were out of power and a state of calamity was declared in the aftermath of the typhoon due to the flooding. 85 people were killed while 18 people remained missing. September 30 – October 1, 2011: Typhoon Nalgae (Quiel) mainly affected Northern Luzon, which made landfall as a Category 4 super typhoon over the Isabela ...
Tropical Storm Ketsana (Ondoy, 2009) - Deadliest typhoon to strike Metro Manila in recent recorded history, also had a destructive impact in Vietnam; Typhoon Nari (Santi, 2013) - Affected the same areas, though weaker on landfalls; Typhoon Rammasun (Glenda, 2014) - Powerful typhoon that traversed the same areas as Xangsane
Typhoon Vamco, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ulysses, was a powerful and very destructive Category 4-equivalent typhoon that struck the Philippines and Vietnam.It also caused the worst flooding in Metro Manila since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.