Typhoon Saudel (2026)

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Typhoon Saudel, also known in the Philippines as Typhoon Obet, was a considerably powerful and very long-lived tropical cyclone that impacted a large swath of Eastern and Southern China, as well as the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in late August and early September 2026. The eighteenth named storm and sixth typhoon of the 2026 Pacific typhoon season, Saudel originated from a disturbance near Palikir, Micronesia. On August 15, the JMA noted that the disturbance intensified into a tropical depression then the JMA downgraded the system to a low pressure area hours later. However, the following day, the JMA upgraded the system back to a tropical depression. On August 18, the JTWC classified the system as a depression, giving it the designation 17W. The following day, the JMA upgraded the system to a tropical storm, assigning it the name Saudel.

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