2021 Pacific typhoon season
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| Season summary map | |
| First storm formed | January 19, 2021 |
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| Last storm dissipated | December 21, 2021 |
| Strongest storm | Surigae – 895 hPa (mbar), 260 km/h (160 mph) (10-minute sustained) |
| Total storms | 22 |
| Total fatalities | 579 total |
| Total damage | $Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "$". (2021 USD) |
| Pacific typhoon seasons 2019, 2020,2021, 2022, 2023 | |
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The 2021 Pacific Typhoon Season was an active season that featured the strongest typhoon before the month of May, Surigae. This season also featured Rai, the 2nd deadliest in Philippines history. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the Equator between 100th meridian east and the 180th meridian.
Within the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, there are two separate agencies who assign names to tropical cyclones. This can often result in a cyclone having 2 names. The Japan Meteorological Agency named a tropical cyclone if it was judged to having 10-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph) anywhere in the basin.
While the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysics and Astronomical Services Administration assigned names to tropical cyclones which moved into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N and 25°N even if the cyclone has had a name assigned to it by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Tropical depressions that were monitored by the United States's Joint Typhoon Warning Center were given a number with a "W" suffix. On average, 27 storms form in this basin every year.
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