Typhoon Toraji

Typhoon Toraji (Nika)
Typhoon (JMA scale)
Category 1 typhoon (SSHWS)
FormedNovember 8, 2024
DissipatedNovember 12, 2024
Highest winds10-minute sustained: 130 km/h (80 mph)
1-minute sustained: 150 km/h (90 mph)
Lowest pressure970 hPa (mbar); 28.64 inHg
Fatalities2+
Part of the 2024 Pacific typhoon season

Typhoon Toraji shortly known as Typhoon Nika, is a category 1 Typhoon that hit the Philippines was a fairly strong typhoon to traverse the country alone, The twentieth first cyclone in the western Pacific Ocean, and the fourteenth tropical cylone in the Philippine annual local typhoons names, in late November 2024; 8:10am (PST), the typhoon making first landfall in the town of Dilasag in Aurora-Dinapigue, Isabela province area. [1]a few days earlier by the Ofel, Pepito, 96W Querubin and Romina.[2]

Meteorological

In November 18 The Typhoon Toraji, formed in the Philippine Sea before Typhoon Usagi and Typhoon Man-yi.[3]

Retirement

On February 2025 PAGASA decided that the name of Nika, retired from its rotating annual list, along with Julian, Kristine and Leon, Bathers the Northern Luzon. Causing P1 billion, And replaced the name with Nanolay in 2028 annual list.

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Preceded by
Marce
Replaced
Nanolay (unused)
Succeeded by
Ofel