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Typhoon Bolaven (2023) Typhoon Bolaven was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that struck the Northern Mariana Islands in mid-October 2023. The fifteenth named storm of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season, Bolaven originated on October 6 near the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and moved to the northwest.
Typhoon Doksuri. Typhoon Doksuri, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Egay, was a powerful and highly destructive tropical cyclone which became the costliest typhoon to hit China, and the costliest typhoon on record, breaking the previous record of Typhoon Mireille in 1991. Doksuri was also the strongest typhoon to impact Fujian since ...
Typhoon Mawar (Betty) Typhoon Mawar, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Betty, was one of the strongest Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones on record in the month of May, and the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2023. [1] The name "Mawar" means Rose in Malay. The second named storm, the first typhoon and the first super typhoon ...
The 2023 Pacific typhoon season was the fourth consecutive below-average season and became the third-most inactive typhoon season on record in terms of named storms, with just 17 named storms developing, only ahead of 2010 and 1998. Despite the season occurring during an El Niño event, which typically favors activity in the basin, activity was ...
Typhoon Koinu. Typhoon Koinu, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Jenny, was a strong and damaging tropical cyclone that made landfall on the southern tip of Taiwan and affected Hong Kong. Koinu, a replacement name for Tembin which means puppy or Canis Minor in Japanese, was the fourteenth named storm and ninth typhoon of the 2023 Pacific ...
Typhoon Khanun ( Thai: ขนุน ), known in the Philippines as Typhoon Falcon, was a powerful, erratic and long-lived tropical cyclone that moved along Okinawa, Japan and the west coast of the Korean Peninsula in August 2023. The sixth named storm, and the fourth typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season.
Tropical cyclones in 2023. Satellite photos of 30 tropical cyclones worldwide that reached at least Category 3 on the Saffir–Simpson scale throughout 2023, from Freddy in February to Jasper in December. Among them, Mawar (second image in the second row) was the most intense with a minimum central pressure of 900 hPa.
The Philippines is a typhoon -prone country, with approximately 20 typhoons entering its area of responsibility each year. Locally known generally as bagyo ( [bɐgˈjoʔ] ), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the West Philippine Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being ...