"2009 Pacific Typhoon Season"

The 2009 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it runs year-round in 2009, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November.^1.These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

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 2009 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical storms formed in the entire Western North Pacific basin are assigned a name by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Tropical depressions formed in this basin are given a number with a “W” suffix by the United States’ Joint Typhoon Warning Center. In addition, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones (including tropical depressions) that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility. These names, however, are not in common use outside of the Philippines.

Typhoon Ondoy just badly hit the Philippines and now another Typhoon is expected to be in the Philippine responsibility 3 days from now, the typhoon will be named as Typhoon Peping

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