Category Super Typhoon

Super typhoon causes heavy damage in China

Super typhoon Dujuan has caused heavy losses in China’s coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, the media reported on Thursday.   Dujuan, the 21st typhoon of the year, made landfall in Fujian on Tuesday morning. It killed two people and…

Aftermath of Deadly Taiwan Typhoon

Typhoon Goni batters Japan with record 159 mile-per-hour winds

After dumping deadly rains in the northern Philippines, Typhoon Goni strengthened on Sunday, bringing a record-shattering wind gust to the Japanese island of Ishigakijima.   According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the wind on Ishigakijima Island reached a maximum gust…

Goni forecast to become super typhoon as it spins west toward Taiwan

Typhoon Goni (left) and Typhoon Atsani (right) are forecast to reach super typhoon-status at the same time on Thursday. (JMA) Twin typhoons are spinning west across the Pacific Ocean — Goni and Atsani — poised to become the sixth and…

Taiwan sunk in mud streams after deadly typhoon Soudelor

Typhoon Soudelor kills dozens in China

At least a dozen people have died and five are missing in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou in the wake of Typhoon Soudelor, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency, which cited local disaster management officials.   It was…