Talk:Typhoon Bebinca
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Move page
I think Typhoon Bebinca (2024) should be moved to Typhoon Bebinca. Accordthemusician (talk) 02:54, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
Requested move 3 October 2024
- 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)
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)
- 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)
- Support per nom and reply CyclonicStormYutu (talk) 14:02, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose. Bebinca's 2000 iteration and 2006 iteration caused 26 and 33 fatalities, respectively. As a result, WP:PRIMARYTOPIC likely does not apply to this storm. ArkHyena (it/its) 23:56, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- @ArkHyena I think they don't have an article though.
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗03:47, 9 October 2024 (UTC)- And the damage is more compared to them.
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗03:48, 9 October 2024 (UTC) - Correct, neither Severe Tropical Storm Bebinca (2000) nor Severe Tropical Storm Bebinca (2006) have articles, and even if they did neither would be called Typhoon Bebinca. Andrewa (talk) 05:16, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- And the damage is more compared to them.
- Fatalities are not the main deciding factor whether or not the article is primary topic. SomeoneWiki04 (talk) 14:07, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Fatalities are not directly a consideration at all. They contribute indirectly as they make it more likely that the event will be covered in newspapers etc.. Andrewa (talk) 05:33, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Agree that primary topic does not apply, but that's because neither Severe Tropical Storm Bebinca (2000) nor Severe Tropical Storm Bebinca (2006) is commonly called Typhoon Bebinca. A hatnote at the article on the one and only Typhoon Bebinca is all that is required. Andrewa (talk) 05:07, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- @ArkHyena I think they don't have an article though.
- Support. Neither the 2000 nor 2006 storms have articles, and neither of them was a typhoon. So the disambiguator is unnecessary, as the proposed article title Typhoon Bebinca is unambiguous. I note 23:06, 13 February 2009 HERB talk contribs block 36 bytes +36 moved Typhoon Bebinca to Tropical Storm Bebinca over redirect: STS by JMA. user:HERB is currently inactive, does anyone else know what either STS or JMA means in that context?Andrewa (talk) 10:07, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- I think it means the storm track by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗11:11, 11 October 2024 (UTC)- Yes, thank you, that's confirmed by another reply below, see my comment there. Andrewa (talk) 20:16, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Andrewa: STS = severe tropical storm, one class below a typhoon on the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)'s intensity classification scale. For context: the JMA is the regional specialized meteorological center for the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as appointed by the World Meteorological Organization, and is thus the highest-priority source for tropical cyclone information within the Northwestern Pacific (for Wikipedia purposes, at least). ~ KN2731 {talk · contribs} 15:35, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! So that supports the idea that this storm was not a typhoon according to meteorological authorities, exactly as u:HERB said. But these authorities are not the last word on article names, we go by current English usage, particularly as indicated by reliable secondary sources. So the JMA usage is relevant but not determinative for Wikipedia purposes. Andrewa (talk) 20:13, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- I think it means the storm track by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Brunei ?
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)
- @66.91.198.199 I honestly don't know, It was sourced though.
🍗TheNuggeteer🍗22:42, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Re: Brunei
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)
- 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)
GA review
- 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)
Reviewer: Hurricanehink (talk · contribs) 22:49, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
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)
- 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)



