Chương 148: Typhoon Rai

Typhoon Rai , known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Odette , was a powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that hit the Philippines in December 2021. Rai became the first Category 5 equivalent super typhoon to develop in December since Notch-ten in 2016, and The third Category 5 super typhoon recorded in the South China Sea, after Pamela in 1954 and Rammasun in 2014. The 22nd tropical hurricane, ninth hurricane, and fifth super typhoon of the 2021 Pacific hurricane season, the system originated from a tropical disturbance near the equator on December 10, forming near a low-pressure area that had dissipated the previous day. Conditions around the system were favorable for further development, and slowly developed into a tropical depression on December 12. On the same day, the United States Joint Hurricane Warning Center (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Warning (TCFA) on a consolidated depression.