Typhoon Rai
| Typhoon (JMA scale) | |
|---|---|
| Category 5 super typhoon (SSHWS) | |
Typhoon Rai at its first peak intensity while approaching the Philippines on December 16 | |
| Formed | December 12, 2021 |
| Dissipated | December 22, 2021 |
| Highest winds | 10-minute sustained: 195 km/h (120 mph) 1-minute sustained: 260 km/h (160 mph) |
| Lowest pressure | 915 hPa (mbar); 27.02 inHg |
| Fatalities | 410 total, 80 missing |
| Damage | > $794.72 million (2021 USD) (Third-costliest in Philippine history) |
| Areas affected |
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| Part of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season | |
Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, was a tropical cyclone over the South China Sea which recently passed through the Philippines. It also traveled to Vietnam.
Rai caused severe and widespread damage throughout the Southern Philippines, killing at least 376. [1]
Retirement
On February 2022 PAGASA decided that the name of Odette, will never be used in naming from its rotation annual typhoon names, rampaging the northeastern Mindanao. Causing P1 billion, And replaced the name with Opong in 2025 name list.
References
- ↑ "Sobe para 208 o número de mortos pelo tufão Rai nas Filipinas". Estado de Minas (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 December 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021.