Taiwan experiences many typhoons each year and has one of the highest frequencies of tropical typhoons globally (Lin et al. 2017).
The relief effort was complicated by an earthquake in Yunnan, as well as three more tropical cyclones: Typhoon Kaemi, Typhoon Prapiroon, and Typhoon Saomai.
Earlier on Wednesday, Taiwan was battered by strong winds and rain from a tropical storm, Typhoon Matmo.
While never upgraded by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, the Japanese Meteorological Agency considered the system a weak tropical storm, Typhoon Hal, which formed on June 19 east of the Philippines, passed just north of Luzon on the 22nd as a typhoon.
The period from December to March is particularly rainy because of equatorial depressions, including frequent tropical cyclones (typhoons).
Tropical cyclones called typhoons in the Pacific Ocean may occur in coastal and insular South, Southeast, and East Asia throughout the year but are most severe during the late summer and early autumn.
Tropical storms (typhoons and hurricanes) are an important form of natural disturbance in coastal wetland ecosystems in tropical and temperate regions.
Tropical cyclones (typhoons) affect an increasing number of tropical coasts in the region [14], often resulting in major changes to the superficial geology of the coastal zone, particularly where there are no offshore reef barriers to offset the impacts of storm surges [15].
Our society and critical infrastructure systems are threatened with ever-increasing risks of climatic change leading to frequent extreme weather events such as coastal flooding due to sea-level rise, droughts and heatwaves owing to increasing global mean temperature, and other hydrometeorological hazards such as hurricanes, tropical cyclones, typhoons, among others (Mukherjee 2017).
It was the eighth tropical storm, fifth typhoon, and third super typhoon of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season recognized by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
