User:Mitchazenia/1962 Pacific typhoon season remodeling
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| First storm formed: | January 1, 1962 | |
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| Last storm dissipated: | December 10, 1962 | |
| Strongest storm: | Karen- 185 mph, 897 mbar | |
| Total storms: | 30 | |
| Typhoons: | 24 | |
| Super typhoons: | 5 | |
| Total fatalities: | unknown | |
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The 1962 Pacific typhoon season had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1962, 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.
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 1962 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin had the "W" suffix added to their number.
[edit] Season activity
Ninety tropical waves formed in the 1962 season, only 78 being major easterly waves. 42 of these waves became tropical depressions, 30 as storms and 24 becoming typhoons. This record of 24 typhoons beat 1952 which had 21, but this record was busted in the 1964 season with 26 typhoons. Five super typhoons formed in 1962 which were Georgia, Emma, Ruth, Opal and Karen. Even with the high activity, only about half the cyclones in 1962 made landfall. Two depressions, 50W and 63W, formed in the Central Pacific under the Joint Hurricane Warning Center's (now The Central Pacific Hurricane Center) jurisdiction and were included in the JTWC archives. Both depressions stayed out to sea and had no effects on land.
[edit] Storms
The year started off early as Tropical Depression 1W formed on the first day of the 1962 season, dissipating the next day. The formation of 1W makes this depression beats Subtropical Storm One in the 1978 Atlantic hurricane season, which formed on January 18, 1978. The rest of January was inactive as February 2 formed Tropical Depression 2W, which soon became Tropical Storm Fran. Fran was active until February 6, where the storm dissipated. February also produced two more depressions, 3W and 4W forming in Mid-February. March brought only two depressions, which formed in early time of the month. These depressions 5W and 6W formed and dissipated a day after each of their lives began. The season quiet for over a month until April 16, when Super Typhoon Georgia formed.
