Rapid Fire
Typhoon Gaemi
- 27 Jul 2024
- 1 min read
Recently, Typhoon Gaemi has brought torrential rains that have caused widespread destruction and fatalities across Eastern China, Taiwan and the Philippines.
- Typhoon Gaemi made landfall in Taiwan the strongest in eight years, causing severe flooding in the island's second-largest city, Taichung.
- In the Philippines, it exacerbated seasonal rains, triggering floods and landslides and caused severe flooding in Zhejiang province and led to the highest warning for rainstorms in Wenzhou city in China.
- Typhoons are a kind of storm. The storms, depending on where they occur, may be called hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones.
- The scientific name for all these kinds of storms is tropical cyclones.
- Tropical cyclones are intense circular storms that originate over the warm tropical oceans with speed more than 119 km/hr and heavy rains.
- Tropical cyclones rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
| Type | Location |
| Typhoon | China Sea and Pacific Ocean |
| Hurricane | West Indian islands, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean |
| Tornado | Guinea lands of West Africa, southern USA |
| Willy-willies | North-western Australia |
| Tropical Cyclone | Indian Ocean Region |
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