2022 Pacific typhoon season

In the final week of March, a tropical depression formed west of Palawan and headed for Vietnam, and received the designation of 01W from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, but the system did not last long and dissipated the next day.

Throughout its track, Megi brought catastrophic flooding and landslides to the country as it remained almost stationary in Leyte Gulf before making landfall, which effectively made it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the month of April in the Philippines.

After being initially sheared, Noru began a period of explosive intensification, developing a pinhole eye and intensifying briefly into a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon as it approached Luzon, Philippines.

As the typhoon approached the coast of China, Nalgae weakened back into a tropical storm due to hostile conditions and made landfall over Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai.

Banyan however weakened back into a tropical depression the next day due to strong wind shear and dissipated before reaching the Philippines, only delivering some rainshowers as a remnant low.

Pakhar's close approach to the Bicol Region and Polillo, Quezon prompted the PAGASA to raise Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal (TCWS) #1 in some areas in Southern Luzon.

Pakhar then intensified further, but later rapidly weakening and dissipating by December 12 from high vertical wind shear and dry air sent by the northeast monsoon, making its circulation exposed.

[38] Megi then weakened into a tropical depression after lingering over the islands of Samar and Leyte, resulting in PAGASA removing all warning signals for the system before it dissipated into a remnant low on the midnight of April 13.

[70] 160 nautical miles (300 km; 180 mi) southwest of Hong Kong, the Fujing 001, a crane vessel tasked in assisting with the construction of an offshore wind farm, split in half and quickly sunk—leaving 26 crew members missing.

[74] On June 30, the JTWC began issuing TCFAs for a tropical disturbance in the Philippine Sea, 530 nautical miles (980 km; 610 mi) south-southeast of Kadena Air Base in Japan.

[citation needed] Not long after, the JMA downgraded Trases into a tropical depression, and the JTWC issued their last advisory on it as it lingered near the western coast of South Korea.

[107] Under a favorable environment of warm sea surface temperatures, low wind shear, and moderate equatorial outflow, the convection rapidly consolidated a low-level circulation center which led the JTWC to issue a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert by the next day.

[110] The system then struck Huidong County, Guangdong at 01:40 UTC that same day, according to the China Meteorological Administration,[111] prompting the JTWC to issue its final advisory eight hours after landfall.

[113] The system then subsequently moved over Luzon and emerged into the South China Sea, where it organized but its circulation remained broad, having two distinct vortices present in satellite imagery.

On the evening of August 22, the exposed low-level circulation center was obscured by a convection burst, which later turned into a central dense overcast, which prompted the JMA to upgrade Ma-on into a severe tropical storm.

[144] Under a favorable environment of warm sea surface temperatures, low wind shear, and very good poleward outflow, the system rapidly intensified to become Tropical Storm Tokage by early next day.

[150][151][152] After peaking, Tokage rapidly weakened under high wind shear as it curved northeastwards due to a deep-layered subtropical ridge positioned to the east of the storm,[153] and commenced extratropical transition by 03:00 UTC on August 25.

[197] On September 13, China issued an orange alert (Signal #2) on Muifa, warning that it could impact the Taiwan Strait, in addition to the provinces of Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, and Shanghai.

[206] After transitioning into an extratropical cyclone, the system tracked generally northeastward and continued to deepen as it encountered record warm waters near the western Aleutian Islands.

[207] It crossed the islands, entering the Bering Sea late on September 15 (HDT) as it maintained hurricane-force winds and reached its minimum central barometric pressure of 937 mbar (27.67 inHg) early the next day.

Homes floated off their foundations, major erosion, subsistence infrastructure damage, and power outages were reported in Hooper Bay, Nome, Shaktoolik, Newtok, and Kotlik among others.

[citation needed] Before the cyclone hit the country, the JMA issued a special warning that Nanmadol could cause severe damage, and at least 4 million people have been advised to leave their homes.

[264] Under a favorable environment of warm sea surface temperatures, low to moderate wind shear, and strong poleward outflow,[265] the system continued to organize before PAGASA upgraded it as a tropical depression, naming it as Maymay, late on October 10.

[274] On October 12, the JTWC started to monitor an organizing area of convection with a fully obscured low-level center at approximately 325 nmi (602 km; 374 mi) to the west of Saipan.

[283] Late on October 11, the JTWC started to monitor a scattered area of convection with a poorly-organized broad low-level center at approximately 150 nmi (280 km; 170 mi) to the west-southwest of Manila, Philippines.

[284] Within a marginally favorable environment of no distinct outflow established, low to moderate wind shear, and warm sea surface temperatures, the system slightly organized by the next day, with flaring convection and its center remaining exposed.

[289] Sonca failed to intensify further as its center remained exposed, with deep convection displaced to the west due to strong wind shear,[290] and it soon made landfall on Da Nang, Vietnam late on the same day, prompting the JTWC to issue their final advisory on the system.

[292] As Sonca moved inland, it brought heavy rainfall to central Vietnam, with 700 mm (28 in) of rain fell in Da Nang during a 24-hour period on October 14–15; this resulted in major flooding throughout the region, with 10 fatalities reported.

On October 16, at 3:50 a.m. Philippine Standard Time, the PAGASA noted that Nesat (Neneng) made its first landfall in the island of Calayan in the province of Cagayan as a severe tropical storm.

[321] Despite the fact that the depression did not make landfall in the Philippine, it would pass very close to the province of Batanes on evening of October 21, causing rain and strong winds in Northern Luzon.

Tropical Storm Malakas intensifying east of Yap as Tropical Storm Megi nears the Visayas and later stalls in Leyte Gulf , bringing massive flooding and landslides to the Philippines.
Tropical Storm Chaba (left) continuing to intensify in the South China Sea , while Tropical Storm Aere (Domeng) (right) is moving north slowly across the Philippine Sea .
Typhoon Hinnamnor taken by the Expedition 67 crew aboard the International Space Station on August 31.
Three tropical cyclones active on September 13: Typhoon Muifa (left), Tropical Storm Nanmadol (center), and Typhoon Merbok (right)
Typhoon Noru undergoing a period of rapid intensification while approaching Luzon on September 24