Talk:Typhoon Bebinca

Latest comment: 9 days ago by Hurricanehink in topic GA review

Move page

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I think Typhoon Bebinca (2024) should be moved to Typhoon Bebinca. Accordthemusician (talk) 02:54, 20 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 3 October 2024

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Move to "Typhoon Bebinca" — Consensus supports renaming the article without the year disambiguator due to the unique significance and impact of the 2024 storm, including extensive damage and fatalities. Previous storms named Bebinca (2000 and 2006) were not classified as typhoons and did not reach the same level of impact, making additional disambiguation unnecessary. See WikiNav for incoming readership and clickstreams for the list article, which indicates a strong target to this article. (non-admin closure) 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 15:31, 1 November 2024 (UTC)Reply


Typhoon Bebinca (2024)Typhoon Bebinca – This storm is significantly bigger then the other storms with the same name, with none of them taking up this name. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 11:13, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

i think so too. this storm has caused over $2 billion in damage, plus there were a good few people who died during bebinca Accordthemusician (talk) 13:00, 4 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Support per nom and reply CyclonicStormYutu (talk) 14:02, 4 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Brunei ?

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Whay is Brunei mentioned in the discussion of this typhoon ? It is no where near the track of this storm. Shanghai landfall is 3000 km from Brunei. 66.91.198.199 (talk) 14:50, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

@66.91.198.199 I honestly don't know, It was sourced though. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 22:42, 3 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Re: Brunei

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Pinging @HurricaneEdgar: and @Borgenland: Brunei is a sore topic in the article. An Ip mentioned it before, but I replied with "I honestly don't know, It was sourced though." Currently, an editor removed the Brunei content with a source by the Strait Times saying "The storm is not expected to affect Brunei". I researched storms near the timeline of Bebinca, with no storms hitting Brunei either way. I think this needs to be properly discussed. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 12:27, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Were there direct statements from the relevant meteorological agencies attributing it to Bebinca? Or did an editor simply attribute bad weather to the storm by WP:OR? Borgenland (talk) 12:45, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

GA review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Typhoon Bebinca/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: HurricaneEdgar (talk · contribs) 14:13, 25 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 22:49, 4 November 2025 (UTC)Reply


I'm going to be reviewing this article. @HurricaneEdgar:, just a reminder that you're supposed to review articles when you nominate articles.

  • "the first typhoon to made landfall in the city since Typhoon Muifa in 2022" - source?
  • The thirteenth named storm and sixth typhoon of the annual typhoon season, Bebinca formed from atmospheric convection 385 km (239 mi) east-northeast of Kosrae, was upgraded to a tropical storm by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on September 10, and was named Bebinca, before turning west-northwest due to interaction with an upper vortex; by September 13, as it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration named it Ferdie, and it eventually moved across the Ryukyu Islands, where both the Joint Typhoon Warning Center and the JMA upgraded it to a minimal typhoon.
  • This needs to be split into several sentences
  • "Inland, Bebinca quickly weakened to a severe tropical storm due to land interaction as it moved west-northwest under the steering influence of the subtropical high." - you should say when Bebinca made landfall. Also, didn't it quickly weaken to a tropical storm, not just a STS? And shouldn't the subtropical high be mentioned earlier?
  • "In China, Bebinca caused two fatalities and one injury, but the country was soon impacted by Tropical Storm Pulasan just days later. " - I don't understand the "but" here. Also China is a big country.
  • " Bebinca significantly affected Guam, leading to storm warnings being issued" - after China?
  • "In Japan, thousands of homes lost power in Amami, and high winds were recorded in Okinawa Prefecture. " - after China? Also, how strong were the winds?
  • "Typhoon Bebinca emerged from an area of atmospheric convection 385 km (239 mi) east-northeast of Kosrae on September 5." - your wording is unclear here, what you mean by "emerged". Did it become Typhoon Bebinca that day? The infobox says the 9th
  • You mention Kosrae twice, once in the lead and once in the met history, but you never say where that is. It would be helpful
  • "as it consolidated with a central dense overcast (CDO) feature obscuring its circulation center while tracking near Guam,[7] and subsequently turned west-northwestward due to interaction with an upper vortex." - I'm not sure what this means. Can you rewrite it to make it simpler? Also how close did it get to Guam?
  • You go from JMA upgrading Bebinca to a severe tropical storm, then to it weakening. Why did it weaken back to a TS?
  • Can you split the 2nd MH paragraph into two paragraphs?
  • "By 06:00 PHT (10:00 UTC), Bebinca had entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and was subsequently named Ferdie by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA),[13] but just a few hours later, it exited the PAR." - these are a lot of words to say that PAGASA briefly issued advisories on the system as "Ferdie". Can you simplify this?
  • "both the JMA and JTWC to upgrade it to a minimal typhoon the next day as it moved across the Ryukyu Islands" - I have no idea what day this is
  • "The JMA reported that Bebinca reached its peak intensity at 00:00 UTC on September 15 with 10-minute sustained winds of 140 km/h (85 mph) and a central pressure of 965 hPa (28.50 inHg),[21] before eventually peaking at Category 1-equivalent intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale with 1-minute sustained winds of 140 km/h (85 mph) - you mention 140 km/h twice, unless I'm missing something here.
  • "On September 16, at around 07:30 CST,[22] Bebinca made landfall in Lingang New City, Shanghai, China,[23] becoming the strongest typhoon to hit the area since Typhoon Gloria in 1949,[24][25] with a microwave eye feature spanning 29 miles (46 km) and convective bands extending south-southwestward as it moved west-northwestward under the steering influence of the subtropical high." - A few things. Why do you switch to CST after using UTC previously? Also, the last part is a lot of complicated details that doesn't seem relevant - "convective bands extending south-southwestward as it moved west-northwestward under the steering influence of the subtropical high"
  • "Inland, Bebinca quickly diminished to a severe tropical storm due to land interaction,[28] with the JMA tracking the system until it was last noted on September 18." - when did it weaken into a tropical depression?
  • "The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) stated that the southwest monsoon, locally called Habagat, will enhance when the storm enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), and continue after the storm exits the PAR." - why the usage of "will enhance"? The article should be in the past tense.
  • "Bebinca was also predicted to bring heavy rains across the northern portion of the Philippines. Thunderstorms were also expected in the rest of Luzon and Metro Manila." - the prediction isn't useful, what's important is what actually happened. Unless there were rainfall warnings, and people evacuated because of the warnings. That would be a different story.
  • "PAGASA also predicted that the storm will intensify into a typhoon" - it did. Why is this important?
  • "PAGASA stated that the storm will bring 1.5–3.5 metres (1.6–3.8 yards) high flash floods to Palawan, Western Visayas, Negros Island Region, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula and the Davao Region." - two things. First, you use ft or inches elsewhere in the article, not yards. Second, can you condense all of these areas?
  • "The heavy rains brought by the storm-associated trough and southwest monsoon damaged or destroyed nearly 97 homes in the Philippines, displacing over 36,626 people and causing infrastructure damage estimated at ₱200,000 (US$4,060.91)." - that's a lot of info, but it should be reorganized. Start by saying that the storm interacted with the monsoon to produce heavy rainfall. Do you have any rainfall totals? Then you can get into the affected infrastructure. Lastly, if the floods damaged or destroyed less than 97 homes, that means there were 377 people per home, if 36,626 people became displaced. The math seems off. Can you check it?
  • "All fatalities were caused by falling trees" - this should be moved to when you mention the fatalities
  • "According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, 1,381 individuals were preemptively evacuated, while classes were suspended in 244 areas, including nine municipalities that also ceased work operations." - this is preparations
  • Can you convert "24,247 hectares of farmland"?
  • Abbreviate and convert "40 kilometres per hour"
  • For the China section, you only mention four homes being damaged. That seems awfully light for a storm that caused more than $1 billion in damage
  • " But in a report from China Meteorological Administration to the 19th Integrated Workshop of ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee in November 2024, total damage from Bebinca in China could reached 550 billion RMB (US$75.8 billion)." - don't start a sentence with "But".
  • Were there any impacts in Guam?
  • "In Taiwan, as a way of preparation, weather researchers used artificial intelligence to predict the storm path. " - that's not unique to Taiwan. A lot of weather forecasts use super advanced computer models. So I'm not sure if this is important
  • "The storm was predicted to bring heavy rains to Taiwan, with possible thunderstorms occurring." - did it?
  • " The storm was forecast to pass through Okinawa" - did it?
  • "High winds were recorded at Kadena Air Base" - how strong?

The article is decent, but a bit rough in a few spots. Let me know if you have any questions about my review. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 22:49, 4 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I’ll cancel this for now since I need to fix another GA first. Sorry, but I could probably work on this when I have more time. To be honest, I nominated the GA because I felt the article had a good chance of passing, but with my schedule in college, I can’t manage it right now. My apologies. HurricaneEdgar 12:40, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Hurricanehink @HurricaneEdgar I did some of the GA points listed, can you cross them out? You may either fail the GAN or continue this. RFNirmala (talk) 09:15, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@RFNirmala: this was from a previous GAN, which was already failed. There was a new GAN nominated in January 2026. I hope the new reviewer will consider these points. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:15, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

GA review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Typhoon Bebinca/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: TheNuggeteer (talk · contribs) 01:29, 24 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 21:06, 6 May 2026 (UTC)Reply


I figured I should review this because I have a GAN.

I'm copying my review from before that weren't addressed:

  • "the first typhoon to made landfall in the city since Typhoon Muifa in 2022" - source?
  • There is none; removed
  • "Inland, Bebinca quickly weakened to a severe tropical storm due to land interaction as it moved west-northwest under the steering influence of the subtropical high." - you should say when Bebinca made landfall. Also, didn't it quickly weaken to a tropical storm, not just a STS? And shouldn't the subtropical high be mentioned earlier?
  • Fixed
  • It still says that Bebinca quickly weakened to a severe tropical storm. My point was that it weakened in general, not just to a subtropical storm. And also, the mention of the subtropical high feels like an afterthought. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:45, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
  • Removed the subtropical high mention. As the best track archival website is deprecated, I have used IBTRACS to cite the TS claim and re-added it to the lead.
Make sure you fix the met history, which ends on the 17th, not 18th. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:26, 26 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
Finished the met history using IBTRACS.
  • "In China, Bebinca caused two fatalities and one injury, but the country was soon impacted by Tropical Storm Pulasan just days later. " - I don't understand the "but" here. Also China is a big country.
  • Removed the Pulasan part
  • " Bebinca significantly affected Guam, leading to storm warnings being issued" - after China?
  • Placed it before China
  • "In Japan, thousands of homes lost power in Amami, and high winds were recorded in Okinawa Prefecture. " - why is Japan after China, when it was affected first? Also, how strong were the winds?
  • Placed it before; removed the winds part as the source does not present Kadena as the actual wind recorder.
  • "Typhoon Bebinca emerged from an area of atmospheric convection 385 km (239 mi) east-northeast of Kosrae on September 5." - your wording is unclear here, what you mean by "emerged". Did it become Typhoon Bebinca that day? The infobox says the 9th
  • Changed to originated; the TCFA was actually issued on the 9th, but the atmospheric convection was from September 5.
  • "as it consolidated with a central dense overcast (CDO) feature obscuring its circulation center while tracking near Guam,[7] and subsequently turned west-northwestward due to interaction with an upper vortex." - I'm not sure what this means. Can you rewrite it to make it simpler? Also how close did it get to Guam?
  • Rewrote
  • That is not original research, as you are not interpreting information in a new way that would be difficult to verify. As you have the coordinates and they are sourced, you can use them to figure out the distance, and you wouldn't need a secondary source for where Guam is located, since that's pretty indisputable (13.4N, 144.79E) ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:02, 20 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
I suggest simplifying it to just "Guam", since the island is so small. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:26, 26 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
Done.
  • "By 06:00 PHT (10:00 UTC), Bebinca had entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and was subsequently named Ferdie by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA),[13] but just a few hours later, it exited the PAR." - these are a lot of words to say that PAGASA briefly issued advisories on the system as "Ferdie". Can you simplify this?
  • I tried to simplify, but most words are from the full name of PAGASA
  • "The JMA reported that Bebinca reached its peak intensity at 00:00 UTC on September 15 with 10-minute sustained winds of 140 km/h (85 mph) and a central pressure of 965 hPa (28.50 inHg),[21] before eventually peaking at Category 1-equivalent intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale with 1-minute sustained winds of 140 km/h (85 mph) - you mention 140 km/h twice, unless I'm missing something here.
  • Aren't 10-minute and 1-minute sustained different? I think this just says that it peaked in JMA and then JTWC
  • But both agencies said the same wind speed. Can you find a way of writing it to avoid writing out the exact wind speed twice? Also, I notice you're using the prognostic reasoning for the JTWC. Be sure to cite the best track when it comes to peak intensities. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:45, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
  • "On September 16, at around 07:30 CST,[22] Bebinca made landfall in Lingang New City, Shanghai, China,[23] becoming the strongest typhoon to hit the area since Typhoon Gloria in 1949,[24][25] with a microwave eye feature spanning 29 miles (46 km) and convective bands extending south-southwestward as it moved west-northwestward under the steering influence of the subtropical high." - A few things. Why do you switch to CST after using UTC previously? Also, the last part is a lot of complicated details that doesn't seem relevant - "convective bands extending south-southwestward as it moved west-northwestward under the steering influence of the subtropical high"
  • The source uses CST, but I converted it to UTC. Removed the last few words.
  • The article should be consistent. Most of the article uses UTC, but some of it uses CST, and some of it uses the Philippine time zone. Also, I notice you have miles first instead of km. The whole article should be metric units first. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:45, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
  • "Inland, Bebinca quickly diminished to a severe tropical storm due to land interaction,[28] with the JMA tracking the system until it was last noted on September 18." - when did it weaken into a tropical depression?
  • September 17, 00:00, but I can't cite archive.today sources so I just changed it to September 17.
  • Yes, but it seems a bit contradictory to use JTWC (JMA already stopped before it downgraded) just after it said the JTWC stopped issuing warnings.
  • "The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) stated that the southwest monsoon, locally called Habagat, will enhance when the storm enters the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), and continue after the storm exits the PAR." - why the usage of "will enhance"? The article should be in the past tense.
  • Already changed
  • I don't think you see the problem here. The writing implies that the stuff would happen in the future. That's not useful for a storm two years ago. We know that the storm did in fact enhance the monsoon. Please rewrite/remove parts of the preps section that don't add anything, like this part. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:45, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
  • Removed this and another sentence, as I don't know how to make it useful.
  • "Bebinca was also predicted to bring heavy rains across the northern portion of the Philippines. Thunderstorms were also expected in the rest of Luzon and Metro Manila." - the prediction isn't useful, what's important is what actually happened. Unless there were rainfall warnings, and people evacuated because of the warnings. That would be a different story.
  • Removed
  • Removed along with the former
  • "PAGASA also predicted that the storm will intensify into a typhoon" - it did. Why is this important?
  • Already removed
  • "PAGASA stated that the storm will bring 1.5–3.5 metres (1.6–3.8 yards) high flash floods to Palawan, Western Visayas, Negros Island Region, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula and the Davao Region." - two things. First, you use ft or inches elsewhere in the article, not yards. Second, can you condense all of these areas?
  • Fixed
  • "The heavy rains brought by the storm-associated trough and southwest monsoon damaged or destroyed nearly 97 homes in the Philippines, displacing over 36,626 people and causing infrastructure damage estimated at ₱200,000 (US$4,060.91)." - that's a lot of info, but it should be reorganized. Start by saying that the storm interacted with the monsoon to produce heavy rainfall. Do you have any rainfall totals? Then you can get into the affected infrastructure. Lastly, if the floods damaged or destroyed less than 97 homes, that means there were 377 people per home, if 36,626 people became displaced. The math seems off. Can you check it?
  • The source is a dead link so I can't calculate the damages. The source most likely has no rainfall totals anyway.
  • I can't find it on the official NDRRMC website and it wasn't properly archived through web.archive.org. Should NDRRMC be removed? Most online sources cite PAGASA's rainfall totals prediction; I cannot find any independent rainfall total.
  • "All fatalities were caused by falling trees" - this should be moved to when you mention the fatalities
  • Done
  • The grammar is worse now: "In total, 203,197 people were affected, with at least six fatalities all caused by falling trees, including four children aboard a tricycle in Malabang, Lanao del Sur and two in the Zamboanga Peninsula., two missing persons; and eleven injuries reported. " ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:45, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
  • Tried my best to fix
  • "with at least six fatalities all caused by falling trees. Four of those fatalities consisted of children aboard a tricycle in Malabang" - so the four children fatalities were all on a single tricycle, caused by falling trees? ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:12, 30 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
  • For the China section, you only mention four homes being damaged. That seems awfully light for a storm that caused more than $1 billion in damage
  • That was only in Shangai, but that was what the source said
  • " But in a report from China Meteorological Administration to the 19th Integrated Workshop of ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee in November 2024, total damage from Bebinca in China could reached 550 billion RMB (US$75.8 billion)." - don't start a sentence with "But".
  • Already fixed
  • Were there any impacts in Guam?
  • Minor damage; added
  • "In Taiwan, as a way of preparation, weather researchers used artificial intelligence to predict the storm path. " - that's not unique to Taiwan. A lot of weather forecasts use super advanced computer models. So I'm not sure if this is important
  • Removed
  • "The storm was predicted to bring heavy rains to Taiwan, with possible thunderstorms occurring." - did it?
  • I don't see any sources but based on satellite images, it probably didn't
  • " The storm was forecast to pass through Okinawa" - did it?
  • Most sources only showed the forecast, so I don't know
  • "High winds were recorded at Kadena Air Base" - how strong?
  • Removed

Here are my new notes.

  • "Bebinca formed from atmospheric convection 385 km (239 mi) east-northeast of Kosrae, was upgraded to a tropical storm by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on September 10, and was named Bebinca, before turning west-northwest due to interaction with an upper vortex; by September 13, as it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration named it Ferdie, and it eventually moved across the Ryukyu Islands, where both the Joint Typhoon Warning Center and the JMA upgraded it to a minimal typhoon. " - this is way too much for one sentence
  • Already split
  • "On September 13, the JMA reported that the storm had weakened to a tropical storm due to its near-surface circulation being fully exposed and its banding being fragmented along the northern edge,[12] with a broad tail of deep monsoonal flow and a tropical upper tropospheric trough cell to the west continuing to infuse dry air into the storm's mid-level core." - so is this
  • Split

There are a lot of the same problems from before, so I will leave the GAN open for a bit so TheNuggeteer can work on it. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:06, 6 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Hurricanehink: addressed everything. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 03:30, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

New issues:

  • " Overall, Bebinca caused an estimated US$2.49 billion in damage across the Philippines and China." - source? This is inconsistent with the article.
  • Changed
  • "385 km (239 mi)" - units should be rounded
  • Done
  • Where does ref 3 mention "disorganized wave in the easterlies"?
  • Removed
  • Where does ref 9 mention "The system then turned west-northwestward due to interaction with an upper vortex"?
  • Changed to subtropical ridge
  • " meanwhile, Bebinca developed a ragged eye feature and maintained a symmetrical and impressive CDO over the past six hours" - this sounds like it came right from an advisory. "over the past six hours" is too time specific to be useful.
  • Changed

@TheNuggeteer: the article still has some issues, some related to research and sourcing, and some related to the writing. Please take your time to review the comments before saying you addressed everything. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:45, 11 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Hurricanehink: addressed the issues you brought up. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 02:41, 12 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Hurricanehink: hello? 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 13:21, 19 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
@TheNuggeteer: you haven't fixed many of the issues I brought up. Can you reply to each of the points I brought up and confirm that you've either done them, or explain why you couldn't/didn't? The article isn't there yet. Also, there's probably one too many images in the impact section. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:54, 19 May 2026 (UTC)Reply