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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.
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 .
November 5–8, 2024: Typhoon Yinxing (Marce) was the third in a string of six storms to affect the Philippines, making landfall in Santa Ana as a Category 4. Overall, damages stood at ₱192.73 million (US$3.91 million) and one person was left dead.
Typhoon Yinxing hit the northeastern Philippines last week, with winds equivalent to a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane. There were no casualties reported but the storm brought torrential rain, storm ...
Typhoon Mawar passed north of Guam as a Category 4-equivalent typhoon on May 24, bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rain marking as the strongest storm to affect the island since Typhoon Pongsona in 2002. [2] [3] U.S. President Joe Biden declared Guam a major disaster area on May 27, enabling the distribution of federal funds. Two men are ...
Typhoon Toraji, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Nika, was a fairly strong tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines in early November 2024. It was the fourth tropical cyclone in a series to impact the Philippines, following Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoons Kong-rey, Yinxing, Usagi, and Man-yi which had occurred just a few days earlier.
The typhoon made landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm at around 9pm local time on Wednesday night, bringing with it heavy rains and a dangerous storm surge, the National Weather Service said ...
Typhoon Man-yi, known as Pepito in the Philippines, is now the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane (96-109 mph/154-176 km/h) on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale and will continue to ...