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Champi becomes 20th super-typhoon of 2015 (previous record was 18)
The Pacific’s relentless tropical season of 2015 continues to amaze. On Sunday, Super Typhoon Champi became the Northern Hemisphere's record-setting twentieth Category 4 or stronger tropical cyclone of 2015 (previous record: eighteen in 2004, according to wunderblogger Dr. Phil Klotzbach.) Only one of those twenty Category 4 and 5 storms--Hurricane Joaquin--came from the Atlantic. Champi is the season’s eighth super typhoon, with winds of at least 150 mph--impressive, but still short of the Northwest Pacific record of eleven super typhoons set in 1965 and matched in 1997.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3159
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3159