- Typhoon Mangkhut, known in the Philippines asTyphoon Ompong, was the strongest typhoon to strike Luzon
- In addition, Mangkhut was also the strongest typhoon to strike Hong Kong.
- The twenty-second tropical storm of the 2018 Pacific season, Mangkhut made landfall in the Philippine on September 14 as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon, and subsequently impacted Hong Kong and southern China.
- As of September 2018, Mangkhut was also the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2018.
- sinceTyphoon Megi in 2010, and the strongest typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines sinceTyphoon Haiyan in November 2013.
- • sinceTyphoon Ellen in 1983.
- The country’s deadliest storm on record is super typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 7,000 people and affected millions in 2013.
- In Hong Kong preparations are already under way for the storm, though the latest forecasts suggest Mangkhut will pass to the south of the territory later in the weekend.
- Mangkhut, a super-typhoon with winds of up to 250 kilometers per hour, went on to fell trees and hobble infrastructure in China’s densely populated Guangdong province.
- People’s livelihoods will take time to recover in the Philippines, while China faces widespread damage to infrastructure, people in the two countries said.
- About 3 million people were affected in the worst-hit parts of the Philippines and another 11 million further south face flooding
- Tropical cyclones are known by various names in different parts of the world.
- In the North Atlantic Ocean and the eastern North Pacific they are called hurricanes, and in the western North Pacific around the Philippines,Japan, and China the storms are referred to as typhoons.
- In the western South Pacific and Indian Ocean they are variously referred to as severe tropical cyclones, tropical cyclones, or simply cyclones. All these different names refer to the same type of storm.
- TYPHOONS-6 degree and 20 degree north and south of the equator and are most frequent from July to October. -smaller— diameter of only 50 to 200 miles—have steeper pressure gradient—wind velocity may reach upto 100mile/h
- Hurricanes—calm rainless centres where pressure is lowest. But around the eye the wind strength exceeds force of 75miles/h
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