Stormsfury wrote:
The Phillipines routinely are struck with alarming frequency ... I believe in 1991, the same year that Mt. Pinatubo erupted, one typhoon struck while the volcano was still erupting violently, rain/ash combined to basically produce quite a --- hmm, ash/mudstorm? --- back to the original point, I believe in 1991, 14 TC's struck the Phillippines.
On a side note, so far, I haven't seen not one of the new names list (when the current list replaced the old list) retired or stricken off the list due to severity of the damage, high death toll, or an exceptionally memorable storm relative to its location that it struck.
SF
Typhoon Yunya struck while Pinatubo was erupting and the ash became incorporated into the circulation, causing it to be scattered everywhere.
The deadliest typhoons to strike the Philippines tend to occur in October and November. To make matters worse, typhoons in those months tend to strike the Philippines in pairs.
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I thought I read somewhere that Typhoon Vamei from 2001 was going to be retired because it formed so close to the equator. (When Vamei formed, all you could hear were the jaws of tropical cyclone meteorologists dropping worldwide)
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