Typhoon Catalá (2034)

Typhoon Català, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Quinta, was the strongest storm worldwide in 2034, breaking Typhoon Tip’s record and Hurricane Patricia’s record winds. Catala is the Marshallese word for “Bird”.

Meteorological history
In the Central Pacific, Tropical Depression 09C developed on October 12. It entered the Western Pacific and moved southwest, slowing down into very favorable conditions of 35C, becoming Tropical Storm Català 6 hours later. Català later became a Category 2 typhoon, and issued warnings for Guam. Typhoon Català rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm with winds of 175mph on October 20, but weakened due to wind shear from Typhoon Chaba (Pepito) from the north. Català then weakened into a Category 4, then once became a Category 5 after 2 days of being stationary, then became stationary for 2 days until it reached winds of 300mph. Typhoon Català started to head towards Northern Luzon, even outside the PAR, PAGASA started to raise Signal 2 warnings in its projected path of impact: Aurora-Isabela Area. Typhoon Catala entered the PAR and was known as Super Typhoon “Quinta”. Typhoon Català (Quinta) reached winds of 330mph, beating and shattering all records as the most powerful storm in history. Typhoon Catala continued to intensify, and reached peak intensity in October 27 with winds of 345mph. Signal 5 was raised in whole Luzon and Northern Visayas. On October 28, Catala made landfall in Dinapique, Isabela, which flattened all buildings, and exited the Luzon landmass by evening. Catala, still a 200mph storm, made landfall in Hong Kong, Macau, which raised Signal 10. Catala continued in the Eastern Coast and finally dissipating on November 2.

Damages: ₱99.78 billion pesos ($55 billion)

Retirement
Català, formerly the disastrous Typhoon Aere (Queenie) in 2028, was new and was replaced soon with Ebon. Català, known to the Philippines as Quinta, made Haiyan (Yolanda) nothing. PAGASA replaced Quinta with Quincy, for 2038, respectively.