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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 ...
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.
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] In 2024, it was replaced by Sarbul, which is a Yapese word for monsoon or rainy season. [2]
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]
Typhoon Rai left a trail of destruction in the southeast Philippine province of Surigao del Norte, video from December 20 showed, as the country’s National Police told media the death toll had ...
Typhoon Kong-rey, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Leon, was a powerful and large tropical cyclone that impacted Taiwan and the Philippines before later affecting East China, South Korea, and Japan in late October and early November 2024.
So far, temperatures have risen by 1.2 degrees Celsius from that baseline. The effects of these stronger storms are visible in recent Asian cyclones such as Typhoon Rai, which hit the Philippines ...