Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, is currently a weakening tropical cyclone over the South China Sea which recently passed through the Philippines. Rai became the first Category 5 super typhoon since Nock-ten to form in the month of December and the third Category 5 super typhoon to exist in the South China Sea after Pamela of 1954 and Rammasun of 2014. The twenty-second tropical storm and ninth typhoon of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season, the system originated from a tropical disturbance near the equator on December 9.