Typhoon Rai

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Typhoon Rai (Odette)
Typhoon (JMA scale)
Category 5 super typhoon (SSHWS)
Typhoon Rai at its first peak intensity while approaching the Philippines on December 16
FormedDecember 12, 2021
DissipatedDecember 22, 2021
Highest winds10-minute sustained: 195 km/h (120 mph)
1-minute sustained: 260 km/h (160 mph)
Lowest pressure915 hPa (mbar); 27.02 inHg
Fatalities410 total, 80 missing
Damage> $794.72 million (2021 USD)
(Third-costliest in Philippine history)
Areas affected
Part of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season

Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, was a tropical cyclone over the South China Sea which recently passed through the Philippines. It also traveled to Vietnam.

Rai caused severe and widespread damage throughout the Southern Philippines, killing at least 376. [1]

References[change | change source]

  1. "Sobe para 208 o número de mortos pelo tufão Rai nas Filipinas". Estado de Minas (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 December 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021.