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Tropical Cyclone Disasters in the Philippines:

A Listing of Major Typhoons by Month Through 1979


The following list of tropical cyclone disasters in the Philippines covers most completely the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has been compiled with the use of sources which give some indication of the severity of past storms. Included also are some historical storms of earlier centuries as recorded by the Rev. Miguel Selga, S.J. in Charts of Remarkable Typhoons in the Philippines 1902-1934; Catalog of Typhoons 1348-1934, the principal data source for the years through 1934. Infor­mation concerning typhoons during the years 1942-1947 is scanty or lacking; hence, disastrous storms that may have occurred during that period are not described.

Cyclonic storms were locally referred to as "baguios" in the Philippines, and that term is used in this report when quoting early texts.

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