December 16, 2021
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Locally called Odette, the storm is among the greatest taped on Earth this year and the sixth to reach classification 5.
Typhoon Rai crossed into the southern Philippines on December 16, 2021, having actually heightened to classification 5 strength simply hours prior to landfall. Locally called Odette, the storm is among the greatest taped on Earth this year and the sixth to reach classification 5.
News and weather forecast showed that the storm initially came ashore in Siargao, a popular island for tourist, with continual winds around 195 kilometers (120 miles) per hour, prior to crossing over a number of other islands. An approximated 100,000 individuals left their houses prior to Rai showed up. An approximated 30 million individuals reside in the main and southern islands of the Philippines.
This natural-color picture of Typhoon Rai was gotten in the early afternoon on December 16, 2021, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi- NPP satellite. Around the time of this image, the storm had actually sustained winds of 240 kilometers (150 miles) per hour, a classification 4 very tropical storm.
The storm is the 15 th tropical storm to go through or near the Philippines this year. The island chain usually sees more landfalling storms every year than any other put on Earth.
Forecasters from the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasted that the storm would head towards Vietnam and southern China in the coming days.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, utilizing VIIRS information from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar- orbiting Partnership.
