Typhoon Molave, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Quinta, was a strong tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in late October 2020. 71 people have been confirmed dead and another 46 are missing from Molave. It was the eighteenth named typhoon and eighth named storm of the season, and the eighteenth typhoon to hit the Philippines in the last 10 years.
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Typhoon Molave, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Quinta, was a strong tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in late October 2020. 71 people have been confirmed dead and another 46 are missing from Molave. Preliminary damage is estimated at USD 660 million, though the total damage in Indochina is currently unknown. Molave became the strongest to strike the South Central Coast of Vietnam since Damrey in 2017. The eighteenth named storm and eighth typhoon of the annual typhoon season, Molave originated from a tropical depression that formed on October 23 east of Palau. On October 24, 2020, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Mayon Volcano in Bicol Region forced to flee their homes in the typhoon. The opening of the 2020 Football League of the Philippines is postponed to October 28 due to inclement weather. The prime minister of Vietnam compared Typhoon Molave to Damrey of 2017, and ordered boats onshore and residents in the area to evacuate. Nearly 1.5million people are expected to evacuate in Vietnam, as Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Xuan ordered the security forces and residents to prepare for the storm.
The storm dissipated on October 30, over Myanmar, after carving a path of destruction in the Philippine Area of Responsibility and causing widespread damage to the Philippines and Indochinas. It was the eighteenth named typhoon and eighth named storm of the season, and the eighteenth typhoon to hit the Philippines in the last 10 years. It is the first typhoon that has been named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) in the same year. The JTWC issued their final warning on the system while it still had Typhoon force winds on October 29, as the storm’s convection became increasingly disorganized. It then dissipated as a Tropical Depression over Cambodia until they issued its final advisory on October30. The typhoon struck Vietnam on October 28, before rapidly weakening as it headed further into Indochine.
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