2023 Pacific typhoon season
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The 2023 Pacific typhoon season was the fourth and final consecutive below-average Pacific typhoon season and became the third-least active on record in terms of named storms, with only 17 developing,
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Typhoon Mawar
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Typhoon Mawar, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Betty, was one of the strongest Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones on record in the month of May, and the strongest tropical cyclone worldwi
2023 Pacific typhoon season
…May and October. The season's first named storm, Sanvu, formed on April 21, while its last named storm, Jelawat, dissipated on December 20. In May, Typhoon Mawar intensified into the first typhoon of the season on May 21, later becoming one of the strongest Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones on record in May…
Typhoon Mawar as viewed from the International Space Station on May 23
The last NEXRAD radar scans of Typhoon Mawar before the radar went out. The NEXRAD velocity (right side) had a max wind speed of 193 mph (311 km/h) about 400 feet (120 m) above the surface.
Damage in Guam from the typhoon