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Typhoon Goni

  • 02 Nov 2020
  • 2 min read

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Recently, Typhoon Goni has made landfall in the eastern Philippines.

  • The Philippines is used to powerful storms - it is hit by an average of 20 storms and typhoons a year.

Key Points

  • Goni - known as Rolly in the Philippines - is the most powerful storm to hit the country since Typhoon Haiyan killed more than 6,000 people in 2013.
    • In fact, Typhoon Goni is the world’s strongest Typhoon in 2020.
  • Last week, the Philippines was hit by Typhoon Molave.
  • Another storm, Atsani, is gaining strength in the Pacific Ocean as it approaches the Philippines.
  • Typhoon is a regionally specific name for a strong "tropical cyclone".
    • Tropical cyclones are known as ‘typhoons’ in the northwest pacific ocean, hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean, Willy-willies in north-western Australia and Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean Region.
  • A tropical cyclone is a generic term used by meteorologists to describe a rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and has closed, low-level circulation.
    • Tropical cyclones rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
    • These are measured by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
  • Naming of Typhoons: The Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC) Tokyo - Typhoon Centre assigns a tropical cyclone a name from the five lists. The name ‘Goni’ is contributed by South Korea.

Source: IE

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