Typhoon Gaemi

Typhoon Gaemi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Carina, was a powerful, deadly, and destructive tropical cyclone that caused devastating flooding in the Philippines in July 2024, primarily due to the moisture from the storm being drawn into the southwest monsoon, triggering widespread torrential rains in the country despite not making landfall. The storm later impacted East China and Taiwan as a typhoon. Gaemi was the third named storm and second typhoon of the annual typhoon season, forming as a tropical disturbance east of Palau on July 17. Environmental conditions were generally favorable for tropical cyclogenesis, prompting the JMA and JTWC to classify it as a tropical depression two days later, with the latter agency designating it as 05W. The storm later strengthened into a tropical storm on July 20. Owing to very favorable environmental conditions, the typhoon intensified and reached its peak with ten-minute maximum sustained winds of 165 km/h (105 mph), and a central atmospheric pressure of 935 hPa (27.61 inHg). With one-minute sustained winds at 230 km/h (145 mph), Gaemi was classified as a Category 4-equivalent typhoon according to the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. The storm then turned north-northwestward, along the western periphery of a subtropical ridge. After stalling and executing a tight counter-clockwise loop near the coast, Gaemi slightly weakened due to land interaction before making landfall on the northeastern coast of Taiwan on July 24. It emerged over the Taiwan Strait just six hours after landfall. Gaemi made landfall in China as a minimal tropical storm in the Xiuyu District of Putian in Fujian Province. Once inland, the system weakened to a tropical depression by July 26 and continued tracking the system until it dissipated on July 29. Together with the southwest monsoon and Tropical Storm Prapiroon, heavy rains were reported over southern and northern...