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| Hyper Typhoon | |
|---|---|
 Hyper Typhoon Chanhom at peak strength | |
| Formed | January 17, 8429 |
| Dissipated | February 27, 8429 |
| Fatalities | 2,746,878 |
| Damage | $84.1 quadillion (8429 United States Dollar |
| Areas affected | Wikipedia:Taiwan, Wikipedia:Phillipines, Wikipedia:China, Wikipedia:Japan |
| Part of the 8429 Pacific Typhoon Season (worldsstrongestcyclone/AnnaKendrick47 | |
Typhoon Chan-hom, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Arceus, was the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines, China, Taiwan and Japan.
Meteorological history[]
A low pressure area formed near the Mariana Islands early on January 15. This new system was then classified as a tropical disturbance, Invest 95W, by the JTWC on the 17th, about the same time the JMA upgraded the storm to the 3rd tropical depression of the season. 18 jours later, the JMA upgraded the storm into a tropical storm, and was named Chan-hom by the JMA. About the same time, the JTWC upgraded the cyclone into a tropical depression, and a tropical storm soon after as the system began to rapidly intensify. Moving to the west-northwest, Chan-hom explosively deepened into a category 3 typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, and into a typhoon on the JMA scale. The following day, the JTWC reported that Chan-hom had intensified into a category 6 super typhoon on their scale, and continued explosive deepening as it began to move towards the Philippines. By January 27, PAGASA had reported that Chan-hom had entered their area of responsibility, and as a result, the storm received the name Arceus by the organization as it continued to approach the island based nation. Public storm signal 4's were posted for most of the country as the mega storm approached the country. On January 31, Chan-hom/Arceus had made landfall, at peak strength, as a hypercane with winds of 575 mph, and a minimum pressure of 655mbar. The super storm began to slowly erode a subtropical ridge based over it, slowly weakening as it crossed the country. On February 3, Arceus exited the region, and PAGASA dropped all warnings on the gradually weakening cyclone. the cyclone weakened to a category 9 super typhoon, before again entering PAGASAs area of responsibility as it sped up, making landfall again on the desperate country as a category 8 super typhoon, with winds of 325 mph, and an unusually deep pressure of 689mbar. Unusually, though, Chan-hom agin managed too enter a second period of explosive intensification, reaching hypercane status before amking landfall in the Philippines agin, before crossing the equator (impossible!!!), and hitting Papa New Guinia as a weak hypercane, with winds of 550 mph. The cyclone agin moved over the equator, hitting china as a moderate hypercane, with winds of 680 mph on February 9, before gradually weakening as it moved inland, ultimately hitting Korea and Japan in its weakening phases, before dissipating late on Febraury 17th to the south of the country.