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The 2024 Pacific typhoon season was the fifth-latest starting Pacific typhoon season on record, yet featured average activity, ending the streak of below average typhoon seasons that started in 2020. It was also the deadliest season since 2013 , and became the fourth-costliest Pacific typhoon season on record, mostly due to Typhoon Yagi .
At ―PAGASA upgrades Gaemi (Carina) to super-typhoon strength with 10-minute sustained winds of 185 kilometres per hour (100 kn; 115 mph 12:00 UTC At 23°42′N 121°42′E / 23.7°N 121.7°E / 23.7; 121.7 ( Gaemi weakens to a Category 3 typhoon ) ― Typhoon Gaemi (Carina) has weakened to a high-end Category 3 typhoon as it ...
The Philippines is a Typhoon (Tropical Cyclone)-prone country, with approximately 20 Tropical Cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, 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 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.
October 23–24, 2012: Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (Ofel) passes by the central part of the country, with Tropical Cyclone Signal No. 2 being raised in much of Visayas. December 3–4, 2012: Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) becomes the strongest tropical cyclone on record to affect Mindanao. Extensive and widespread damage was reported in that archipelago and ...
Typhoon Usagi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Ofel, was a powerful tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines before later affecting Taiwan in early November 2024. It was the fifth of six consecutive tropical cyclones that impacted the Philippines within a span of four weeks, following Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoons Kong-rey ...
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.
May was an average month, featuring five cyclones, with four receiving names, the month started with Cyclone Ialy, which formed near Comoros and intensified into a compact tropical cyclone. On May 22, Typhoon Ewiniar formed southeast of Palau, traversing the Philippines before strengthening as a potent Category-2 typhoon over Lamon Bay .