Typhoon Fung-wong (2025)

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Typhoon Fung-wong, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Uwan, was a powerful, large, and destructive tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines and Taiwan in early November 2025. The twenty-sixth named storm and twelfth typhoon of the 2025 Pacific typhoon season, Fung-wong originated from a broad low-pressure area northeast of Chuuk on November 3. It gradually organized over the following days before undergoing rapid intensification on November 8 under increasingly favorable atmospheric conditions. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) classified the system as a typhoon on November 7, and early the next day, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) upgraded it to a super typhoon. Shortly after, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) assessed Fung-wong as a Category 4-equivalent typhoon. Shortly before making landfall in Dinalungan, Aurora, on the evening of November 9. After crossing Luzon, it weakened and re-emerged over the West...

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