Typhoon
noun
A strong, violent storm that happens mostly in the Pacific Ocean.
The typhoon caused a lot of damage to the coastal cities.
Often appears as...
- typhoon warning
- typhoon season
noun
A strong, violent storm that happens mostly in the Pacific Ocean.
The typhoon caused a lot of damage to the coastal cities.
Often appears as...
- typhoon warning
- typhoon season
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Pro Tip 1/3Geographic Context
Typhoons occur in the Pacific, similar storms in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans are called hurricanes and cyclones.
After moving to Japan, she experienced her first typhoon.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Typhoons often affect life in Asia; knowing their implications can show empathy when speaking to affected people.
My relatives in the Philippines are preparing for the upcoming typhoon.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Phenomenon
Typhoon season influences various human activities; they are more common in late summer and autumn.
Our vacation plans must consider the typhoon season.
Pro Tip 1/3Geographic Context
Typhoons occur in the Pacific, similar storms in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans are called hurricanes and cyclones.
After moving to Japan, she experienced her first typhoon.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Typhoons often affect life in Asia; knowing their implications can show empathy when speaking to affected people.
My relatives in the Philippines are preparing for the upcoming typhoon.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Phenomenon
Typhoon season influences various human activities; they are more common in late summer and autumn.
Our vacation plans must consider the typhoon season.
Pro Tip 1/3Geographic Context
Typhoons occur in the Pacific, similar storms in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans are called hurricanes and cyclones.
After moving to Japan, she experienced her first typhoon.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Typhoons often affect life in Asia; knowing their implications can show empathy when speaking to affected people.
My relatives in the Philippines are preparing for the upcoming typhoon.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Phenomenon
Typhoon season influences various human activities; they are more common in late summer and autumn.
Our vacation plans must consider the typhoon season.
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His Epic Message Will...
clean marvel at trees breathe air free of toxins these are natural rights not things that can be bargained for in Congress see they want you to feel powerless but it has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can cause the typhoon halfway around the world will when
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The most important thing...
we are seeing stronger hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, powered by a warming ocean. If we live in Texas or if we live in Syria, we're seeing climate change supersize our droughts, making them more frequent and more severe. Wherever we live, we're already being affected by a changing climate.
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How to build safer...
access to savings and credit the right technical assistance and the ability to expand their home so but wouldn't all this be great if we prevented the disaster from happening if we strengthen buildings before the next earthquake or typhoon strengthening buildings in these
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We need to green the...
more temperature right so we have locked in more floods more droughts more wildfires more typhoons so it's not a problem coming somewhere else in another generation it's coming to us now in our communities all around the world
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Where will you be able...
forcing many villagers to move inland or to nearby cities. Mohammadpur isn’t the only place where erratic weather is impacting people’s mobility. Repeated typhoons in the Philippines have displaced thousands from their homes.
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Vincent Cochetel: I was...
Yet we do this because one life matters. Sometimes that's the only difference you make -- one individual, one family, a small group of individuals -- and it matters. When you have a tsunami, an earthquake or a typhoon,
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Antonio Donato Nobre:...
and all the heat and cold and typhoons, etc., there is nothing like it in the universe, that we know of. Then, let's turn Hubble in our direction, and let's look at the Earth. Let's start with the Amazon! Let's dive,
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Hurricanes 101 PIPE...
these are the hallmarks of a hurricane also called cyclones or typhoons hurricanes are giant storms prowling the world's tropical seas an average hurricane releases as much energy in a
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Why should you read...
the white whale who bit off his leg. But though the book features pirates, typhoons, high-speed chases, and giant squid, you shouldn’t expect a conventional seafaring adventure.
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Hurricanes 101 PIPE...
- Cyclone, typhoon, hurricane. All of these names are used around the world to describe the most powerful storm known to man.
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His Epic Message Will...
clean marvel at trees breathe air free of toxins these are natural rights not things that can be bargained for in Congress see they want you to feel powerless but it has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can cause the typhoon halfway around the world will when
Video examples
The most important thing...
we are seeing stronger hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, powered by a warming ocean. If we live in Texas or if we live in Syria, we're seeing climate change supersize our droughts, making them more frequent and more severe. Wherever we live, we're already being affected by a changing climate.
Video examples
How to build safer...
access to savings and credit the right technical assistance and the ability to expand their home so but wouldn't all this be great if we prevented the disaster from happening if we strengthen buildings before the next earthquake or typhoon strengthening buildings in these
Video examples
We need to green the...
more temperature right so we have locked in more floods more droughts more wildfires more typhoons so it's not a problem coming somewhere else in another generation it's coming to us now in our communities all around the world
Video examples
Where will you be able...
forcing many villagers to move inland or to nearby cities. Mohammadpur isn’t the only place where erratic weather is impacting people’s mobility. Repeated typhoons in the Philippines have displaced thousands from their homes.
Video examples
Vincent Cochetel: I was...
Yet we do this because one life matters. Sometimes that's the only difference you make -- one individual, one family, a small group of individuals -- and it matters. When you have a tsunami, an earthquake or a typhoon,
Video examples
Antonio Donato Nobre:...
and all the heat and cold and typhoons, etc., there is nothing like it in the universe, that we know of. Then, let's turn Hubble in our direction, and let's look at the Earth. Let's start with the Amazon! Let's dive,
Video examples
Hurricanes 101 PIPE...
these are the hallmarks of a hurricane also called cyclones or typhoons hurricanes are giant storms prowling the world's tropical seas an average hurricane releases as much energy in a
Video examples
Why should you read...
the white whale who bit off his leg. But though the book features pirates, typhoons, high-speed chases, and giant squid, you shouldn’t expect a conventional seafaring adventure.
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Hurricanes 101 PIPE...
- Cyclone, typhoon, hurricane. All of these names are used around the world to describe the most powerful storm known to man.
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Kenneth Oppel
Canadian Author
Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.
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Takashi Murakami
Japanese Artist
My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.
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Amanda Foreman
British Historian
In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft.
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Barry Gardiner
British Politician
The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the physical infrastructure of buildings and bridges roads and railways. They are violent and disruptive.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific.
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Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
American Journalist
Typhoon damage happens when they hit land, and as humans, we've decided to destroy mangroves and hurt coral reefs. If we don't have barriers, the devastation is worse, and that is scary.
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Greil Marcus
American Author
My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey - an insane and sadistic decision.
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Benigno Aquino III
Filipino Politician
Typhoon Haiyan showed the entire world how vulnerable the Philippines as well as other developing countries are to natural disasters.
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Benigno Aquino III
Filipino Politician
We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
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Kenneth Oppel
Canadian Author
Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.
Quote examples
Takashi Murakami
Japanese Artist
My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.
Quote examples
Amanda Foreman
British Historian
In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft.
Quote examples
Barry Gardiner
British Politician
The direct risks from climate change are obvious: as changing weather patterns cause extremes of flood and drought, hurricanes and typhoons. These damage the physical infrastructure of buildings and bridges roads and railways. They are violent and disruptive.
Quote examples
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.
Quote examples
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific.
Quote examples
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
American Journalist
Typhoon damage happens when they hit land, and as humans, we've decided to destroy mangroves and hurt coral reefs. If we don't have barriers, the devastation is worse, and that is scary.
Quote examples
Greil Marcus
American Author
My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey - an insane and sadistic decision.
Quote examples
Benigno Aquino III
Filipino Politician
Typhoon Haiyan showed the entire world how vulnerable the Philippines as well as other developing countries are to natural disasters.
Quote examples
Benigno Aquino III
Filipino Politician
We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
Example 1 of 10
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