2001_VONGFONG

Breaking a five-month seasonal lull, Vongfong violently initiated the 2020 season in mid-May. It underwent rapid intensification into a typhoon category. Compounding its danger, the storm struck right in the early months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, forcing highly complicated, socially distanced evacuations. It battered the Visayas and Luzon islands with seven separate landfalls before dissipating.