2004 Pacific typhoon season
The 2004 Pacific typhoon season produced the second-highest accumulated cyclone energy value in the basin, only after 1997. Moreover, it was an extremely active season, featuring twenty-nine named storms, nineteen typhoons, and six super typhoons. The season's high activity was brought on due to the presence of a Modoki El Niño - a rare type of El Niño in which extremely favorable conditions exist in the Western Pacific basin due to the normally warmer-than-average waters shifting further westward.The season's first named storm and also the first typhoon, Sudal, developed on April 4, later was reached typhoon status two days later, and became the first super typhoon of the year three days later. The season's last named storm, Noru, dissipated on December 22. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean, there are two separate agencies that assign names to tropical cyclones, which...
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