1957 Pacific typhoon season
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The 1957 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1957, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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1957 Pacific typhoon season | |
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Seasonal boundaries | |
First system formed | January 3, 1957 |
Last system dissipated | November 23, 1957 |
Strongest storm | |
Name | Lola |
• Maximum winds | 295 km/h (185 mph) (1-minute sustained) |
• Lowest pressure | 900 hPa (mbar) |
Seasonal statistics | |
Total depressions | 27 |
Total storms | 22 |
Typhoons | 18 |
Super typhoons | 8 (unofficial) |
Total fatalities | 644 |
Total damage | Unknown |
Related articles | |
Pacific typhoon seasons 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 |
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The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1957 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the Fleet Weather Center on Guam.