What does Typhoon 96w mean?

Typhoon 96w is a tropical (low pressure cyclone) disturbance numbered 93w in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

Tropical cyclone is a low-pressure vortex that occurs on the surface of tropical or subtropical ocean, and it is a powerful and profound "tropical weather system". In China, tropical cyclones in the South China Sea and the Northwest Pacific are divided into six grades according to the maximum average wind speed near the center of the bottom layer, and those whose wind reaches 12 or above are collectively called typhoons.

Extended data:

Typhoon (a kind of tropical cyclone) is a low-pressure vortex that occurs on the surface of tropical or subtropical oceans. It is a powerful and profound tropical weather system, and it is the classification of tropical cyclones in Asia-Pacific countries or regions north of the equator and west of international date line.

In the past, China used to call the tropical cyclone formed on the tropical ocean surface above 26℃ a typhoon. According to its intensity, it is divided into six grades: tropical depression, tropical storm, strong tropical storm, typhoon, strong typhoon and super typhoon.

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