Typhoon Jebi (2018)

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Typhoon Jebi, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Maymay, was a cyclone which formed over Primorsky Krai, Russia. Jebi was tied as the most intense tropical cyclone of the Northern Hemisphere in 2018, and was thought to be the strongest typhoon to strike Japan since Typhoon Yancy in 1993.

Jebi formed as the twenty-first named storm of the 2018 annual typhoon season on August 28. It reached peak intensity on August 31 after striking the Northern Mariana Islands. Jebi initiated a slow weakening trend on September 2 and made landfall over Shikoku and then the Kansai region of Japan as a very strong typhoon on September 4. It died down on September 7.

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Category:Tropical cyclones in Asia
Category:Pacific typhoons
Category:August 2018 events
Category:September 2018 events
Category:2018 in Asia
Category:2018 in Russia
Category:2018 in weather