Typhoon Krathon

Typhoon Krathon, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Julian, is a powerful tropical cyclone that is currently meandering along the coasts of Taiwan and the Philippines in late September and early October 2024. The eighteenth named storm and the second violent typhoon of the annual typhoon season, Krathon developed into a tropical depression near Kadena Air Base, Japan, on September 26, and was classified as a tropical storm by the Japan Meteorological Agency on September 28 as it moved southwestward along the southeastern periphery. Though it slowed over the next six hours while positioned in a col region between two deep-layer subtropical high, Krathon reached minimal typhoon status on September 29 after developing a broad, ragged-eye. The typhoon continued moving north-northwestward between two mid-level subtropical high before gradually shifting west-northwestward and passing near Sabtang, Batanes.