Typhoon Gaemi

Typhoon Gaemi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Carina, is an active tropical cyclone that is currently threatening Taiwan, after severely affecting the Philippines in late July 2024. Gaemi, which means ant in Korean, is the third named storm and second typhoon of the 2024 season. Gaemi started as a tropical disturbance near Palau on July 19. The disturbance continued to intensify further due to its favorable conditions in the Philippine Sea. PAGASA would name the depression Carina during its presence inside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR). On July 20, Carina was upgraded into a tropical storm, which attained the name Gaemi by the JMA. Moving northwestwards, Gaemi began to organize its cloud tops as it started to reach typhoon status. On July 23, Gaemi rapidly intensified into a Category-4 typhoon as it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle. Gaemi slightly weakened into a high-end Category-3 typhoon while it was stalling over the coast before it made landfall over Hualien, Taiwan on Wednesday night.