The name Megi (

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: 메기) has been used for four

tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...

s in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was submitted by

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

and is a

word for

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. *

Typhoon Megi (2004) The 2004 Pacific typhoon season was an extremely active season that featured the second-highest ACE ever recorded in a single season, second only to 1997, which featured 29 named storms, nineteen typhoons, and six super typhoons. It was an event ...

(T0415, 18W, Lawin) – moved through the Ryūkyū islands before passing between South Korea and Japan *

Typhoon Megi (2010) Typhoon Megi (), known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Juan, was the strongest tropical cyclone of Tropical cyclones in 2010, 2010 and is considered one of the List of the most intense tropical cyclones, most intense ever recorded. Megi, whi ...

(T1013, 15W, Juan) – an extremely strong Category 5 typhoon that struck Luzon *

Typhoon Megi (2016) Typhoon Megi (), known in the Philippines as Typhoon Helen, was a large and powerful tropical cyclone which affected Taiwan and eastern China in late September 2016. It is the seventeenth named storm and the seventh typhoon of the 2016 Pacific t ...

(T1617, 20W, Helen) – a large typhoon that made landfall in Taiwan as a Category 3 typhoon * Tropical Storm Megi (2022) (T2202, 03W, Agaton) – a deadly tropical cyclone that stalled in

Leyte Gulf Leyte Gulf, also known simply as the Leyte, is a gulf in the Eastern Visayan region in the Philippines. The bay is part of the Philippine Sea of the Pacific Ocean, and is bounded by two islands; Samar in the north and Leyte in the west. On the ...

, bringing widespread flooding to the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

After the 2022 storm, the name ''Megi'' was announced to be retired and will no longer be used. In 2024, the name was replaced by ''Gosari'', which is a Korean food for

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