The name Son-Tinh, from
Tản Viên Sơn Thánh Tản Viên Sơn Thánh ( Chữ Hán: 傘圓山聖, 304 BCE - ?),or Sơn Tinh (山精) is one of The Four Immortals in traditional Vietnamese mythology. He is the god of Ba Vì mountain range and figures also in the romance of Sơn Tinh - Thủy T ...
, one of The Four Immortals in traditional
Vietnamese mythology
Vietnamese mythology ( vi, Thần thoại Việt Nam 神話越南) comprises national myths, legends or fairy tales from the Vietnamese people with aspects of folk religion in Vietnam. Vietnamese folklore and oral traditions may have also been infl ...
, has been used for two
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depend ...
s in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It replaced "
Saomai", which was retired after the 2006 typhoon season.
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Typhoon Son-Tinh
Typhoon Son-Tinh (transliterated from Vietnamese Sơn Tinh), known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ofel, was a powerful, late-forming typhoon that devastated the Philippines with tropical storm strength, and battered Northern Vietnam with hur ...
(2012) (T1223, 24W, Ofel) – a Category 3 typhoon that traversed the Philippines and later made landfall in northern Vietnam.
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Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (2018)
Tropical Storm Son-Tinh, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Henry, was a weak but very deadly tropical cyclone that devastated Vietnam and Laos in July 2018. Son-Tinh originated from an area of low pressure over the Philippine Sea on July ...
(T1809, 11W, Henry) - A weak but deadly storm that caused severe floods and mudslides in Vietnam and in Laos.
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