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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.
An important feature of the TCWS system is the lead time, which is the period within which a locality should expect the arrival of a range of tropical cyclone wind intensity, i.e. the number of hours from the first time a wind signal is hoisted until the expected range of tropical cyclone wind intensity starts impacting a particular locality ...
The following list are the fourteen most deadly storms that impacted the Philippines from 2000. Storms that are known to have killed at least 100 people are included in this list. Only six storms have exceeded the death toll of 1,000. Total number of deaths recorded are only from the country itself.
[83] [84] The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) issued a signal number 1 warning for the city on October 25 at 1:40 AM. [85] At 10:40 AM on October 26, the HKO issued a signal number 3 warning, [ 86 ] and the following day, at 12:20 AM, they announced the cancellation of all tropical cyclone signals.
Should the system intensify further or already have one-minute sustained winds of 34–63 kn (39–72 mph; 63–117 km/h), then it will be called either a tropical or subtropical storm and assigned a name [1] (which replaces the spelled-out TC number; the two-digit number is still kept for purposes like the Automated Tropical Cyclone ...
On December 22, the Kalayaan Islands were issued Signal No. 1, where a wind speed of 39 kilometres per hour (24 miles per hour) to 61 km/h (38 mph) is expected. [353] That same day, the municipality of Balabac, Palawan was added to Signal No. 1. [360] A few hours later, the Signal No. 1 status was lifted in Balabac. [361]
In Macau, the Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) hoisted the typhoon warning signal number one in the early hours at 3AM on 20 December 2021 (MST). [78] In Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Observatory issued the number 1 tropical cyclone signal at 11:20AM (HKT) on 20 December 2021, as Typhoon Rai approached the territory. Rai is the ...
Around the same time, the Hong Kong Observatory had announced that tropical cyclone warning signal number 8 (Tropical Storm) would be issued at 2:40 a.m local time on Friday, with the potential of this being raised to warning signal number 10 (Hurricane) as Super Typhoon Saola drew closer.