Typhoon Khanun approached China’s coast on the heels of Typhoon Doksuri, which left a trail of destruction in the days prior. Following the devastation of…
After making landfall in the Polillo Islands and Luzon, the storm strengthened again as it headed toward Vietnam. “Rapid intensification” of a tropical cyclone, according…
Fiona and Nanmadol dropped several feet of rain on the islands on opposite sides of the world. On September 18, 2022, potent tropical cyclones made…
Typhoon Muifa made landfall twice near China’s largest metropolitan area and several of the world’s major shipping ports on September 14, 2022. First, the typhoon…
The potent storm in the Western Pacific intensified from a tropical depression to a super typhoon in less than 48 hours. In recent years, meteorologists…
The super typhoon reached extreme intensity earlier in the year than any storm in the satellite era. Surigae is not expected to make landfall, but…
On November 11, 2020, Typhoon Vamco thrashed the Philippines with sustained winds of 150 kilometers (90 miles) per hour—the equivalent of a category 2 hurricane….
On November 1, 2020, the strongest storm of the year pummeled the Philippines. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported that Super Typhoon Goni made landfall…
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Philippine Sea on September 4 and provided a visible image of Haishen that had strengthened into a super…
The storm that became Typhoon Lingling strengthened very quickly in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and infrared imagery from NASA revealed the powerful thunderstorms fueling that…
