Meteorological History
An area of disturbed weather formed north of Koror, Palau, around May 5 and moved west toward Asia. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center released a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on May 8, shortly before it was upgraded to a tropical depression. At the 3 a.m. update on May 9, the JTWC upgraded the system to a tropical storm, which was soon named Chanchu by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Chanchu was upgraded to typhoon intensity by the JTWC on May 10, just over a day before it made two landfalls in the Philippines, the first one in Northern Samar, and the second in Oriental Mindoro. After Chanchu exited the Philippines, the JMA upgraded it to a typhoon.
After weakening to typhoon status, Chanchu began to move northeast. Early on May 16, the tropical cyclone began to fuse with a frontal system extending all the way to Alaska, therefore beginning its extratropical transition. In the early hours of May 18, 2006, local time (late May 17, GMT), Chanchu struck land near Shantou, in eastern Guangdong province, China, with 85 mph (135 km/h) winds. It subsequently moved northeast into the coastal Fujian province. The JTWC declared that the storm had become completely extratropical shortly after it made its final landfall, but the JMA did not. According the JMA, the typhoon weakened to a 45 mph (74 km/h, 10-minute sustained) tropical storm and entered the East China Sea on May 18, and became fully extratropical early the following day.
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