What's the most active basin for landfalling storms?

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What's the most active basin for landfalling storms?

#1 Postby LeeJet » Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:46 pm

I've noticed that while the Eastern, Western, and Southern Indian Ocean have more tropical cyclone activity on average, a much smaller percentage of their storms touch land when compared with the Atlantic season. In the Eastern Pacific, they almost never touch land. In the NW Pacific, the typhoons almost always curve off and hit either Taiwan or Japan at a weaker state. As for the Indian Ocean, their cyclones mostly form and die over water. So my question: which basin has the most landfalling tropical systems, or more specifically Cat 3 or higher?
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Re: What's the most active basin for landfalling storms?

#2 Postby AJC3 » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:54 pm

I strongly suspect it's the WPAC hands down given the overall number of superTys, and considering the number of landfalls in the Marianas and Philippines, Taiwan, Japan and neighboring islands.
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Re: What's the most active basin for landfalling storms?

#3 Postby Typhoon Hunter » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:33 am

100% hands down it's the Wpac.

So far this year:
TY Yutu has affected Guam
TS Toragi landfall in China
TY Manyi affected Okinawa, landfall in southern Japan
TY Usagi landfall southern Japan
TY Pabuk southern Taiwan
TS Wutip affected eastern Taiwan
and last weekend TY Sepat slammed central Taiwan.

The town of Hualien, Taiwan is the most cyclone zapped place I've ever known. 2005 they got direct hit by 3 major typhoons, I'm talking cat 3 + and this year TS Pabuk lashed them and Sepat made landfall just to the south of the city. I wanna buy a holiday home there :P
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#4 Postby Coredesat » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:50 am

Easily the WPAC, especially Taiwan and the Philippines (particularly in 2006).

In terms of proportion of storms making landfall, though, the North Indian Ocean is also up there as most of its storms make landfall somewhere given that the basin is so small.
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