Forum:2011 Pacific typhoon season/Aere

===03W:AEREEdit=== ====Tropical Depression 03WEdit==== Well, our third WPac depression is onto us; it's currently 03W, and it's named Bebeng by PAGASA. There is a chance it may become Aere, but it's not a signifigant threat to land altogether. It's worth mentioning either way... Ryan1000 17:30, May 6, 2011 (UTC) ====Tropical Storm Aere (Bebeng)Edit====
 * And now, it's Aere. Probably not going to do much. It does look nice for a TS, though. HurricaneFiona 09:58, May 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Not only is it pretty, it's huge! It's pretty much covering all of the Philippines. Yqt1001 14:33, May 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * The Philipines have gone through lots of bad storms early in the season, but Aere is only expected to hit the Archapelago as a TS and then head northward into Taiwan and possibly Korea and Japan after that. The strongest typhoon to hit the Philipines so early in the season was Super Typhoon Nida in 2004. It brushed by the country as a category 5 storm, and was one of the strongest may typhoons on record. It didn't make landfall, but caused several deaths and severe damage in the country nevertheless. Aere won't even come close to Nida's power, but it's life-threatening either way. Ryan1000 15:57, May 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Probrably lost interest now... Aere hit the Philipines briefly and it's now racing out to sea, never to affect land again. Ryan1000 21:22, May 10, 2011 (UTC)

Eh, before everyone abandons this forum for now, I have one last thing to say: Although Aere may have not hit the Philipines enough to warrant its retirement, PAGASA announced that Bebeng, it's name in their book, will become retired. Ryan1000 20:13, May 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * Statistically it killed more people than Tomas and Igor and caused more damage (value) than Igor (Pesos vs. Canadian Dollar). I still don't see how it was a huge event for the Philippines, but it was still worse than Megi of last year. 216.211.43.197 21:25, May 16, 2011 (UTC)

The Philipines have a strange track record for retired names IMO... They requested Typhoon Bess of 1974 to be retired, which killed only 26 and did 9.8 million in damage, but not Typhoon Rita of 1978, which was a caegory 5 storm which killed hundreds and did catastrophic damage in the islands. They can sometimes be unpredictable with retired names, like Mexico.(strangely enough, after the Typhoon Bess of 1974 became retired, it was accidentally re-put on the list in 1979, and then there was another Typhoon Bess in 1982 that also became retired due to it's impact in Japan. That was the only time on record that the same name was retired twice in the same basin. Weird...)