What is Typhoon Jebi (2018)?
[[File:Jebi 2018-09-04 0419Z.jpg|thumb|Typhoon Jebi over the [[Osaka Bay]] on September 4]] [[File:Typhoon Jebi (2018).svg|thumb]] {{update|date=July 2023}} '''Typhoon Jebi''', known in the [[Philippines]] as '''Typhoon Maymay''', is currently a weakening [[cyclone]] over [[Primorsky Krai]], [[Russia]]. Jebi was tied as the most intense [[tropical cyclone]] of the [[Northern Hemisphere]] in 2018, and is thought to be the strongest typhoon to strike Japan since [[Typhoon Yancy (1993)|Typhoon Yancy]] in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=Typhoon Jebi: Nine dead as strongest storm in 25 years hits Japan |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/typhoon-jebi-dead-strongest-storm-25-years-hits-japan-180904143443591.html |website=Al Jazeera |access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref> Jebi formed as the twenty-first named storm of the 2018 annual typhoon season on August 28. It reached peak intensity on August 31 after striking the [[Northern Mariana Islands]]. Jebi initiated a slow weakening trend on September 2 and made landfall over [[Shikoku]] and then the [[Kansai region]] of [[Japan]] as a very strong typhoon on September 4. It died down on September 7. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Tropical cyclones in Asia]] [[Category:Pacific typhoons]] [[Category:August 2018 events]] [[Category:September 2018 events]] [[Category:2018 in Asia]] [[Category:2018 in Russia]] [[Category:2018 in weather]] {{Multistub|history|weather|asia}}