On August 23, the typhoon was briefly downgraded to a tropical storm due to vertical wind shear while located 200 miles south of Naha, Okinawa.

Aere quickly regained typhoon status and maintained its intensity for the rest of August 23 and developed a 50-mile wide eye.

Typhoon Aere turned west-southwestward on August 25 and made its closest approach to Taipei, Taiwan, passing only 30 miles to the city's north.

The local government of Fuzhou ordered work to stop at all construction sites and schools and universities when the city was under their first Black Typhoon Signal in history.

Early on September 25, six villages located in Gaoqiao Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, were struck by a tornado triggered by Typhoon Aere.

[citation needed] Preliminary statistics indicated that the typhoon had caused 2.485 billion yuan of direct economic losses and was responsible for two deaths in Fujian province.

Thirty-four people were killed as a result of the storm, and fifteen died as a mudslide buried a remote mountain village in the north of the island.

A swollen river near the northern province of Nueva Ecija blocked traffic on a main road and stranded hundreds of commuters overnight.