This year the total number of tropical cyclones to form in the northwest Pacific was (as of late October) quite a bit less than average. But still, over the summer and fall Taiwan has been successively hit by five typhoons: Pabuk, Wutip, Sepat, Wipha and Krosa.
今年西北太平洋生成的颱風總數，截至 10 月上旬僅 15 個，較平均值少了許多，但夏秋之際仍有帕布、梧提、聖帕、韋帕及柯羅莎等接連 5 颱侵襲台灣。