Global Extreme Weather and Climate Change Dashboard

Annual most-intense storm whose track came within 500km of Asia's landmass (a storm can count toward more than one continent -- see the <a href="/methodology">Methodology</a> page), by whole-track minimum sea-level pressure. Unit: hPa (lower = more intense).

Source: CEDA / TRACK catalog (Gray, Volonte, Martinez-Alvarado, Harvey 2024)

Computing trend…

Asia's subset of the global ETC Intensity page's Northern Hemisphere winter (Oct-Mar) TRACK catalog -- see that page's methodology note on severity pre-filtering (n_storms/n_bomb_cyclones serve as description only, not as a trend metric). Lower pressure means a more intense storm, so a detected trend toward greater intensity appears as a decreasing line here. This site assigns a storm to a continent when its track comes within 500km of that continent's Natural Earth landmass (most fixes sit over open ocean, so a landfall test would miss nearly every storm); a storm can count toward more than one continent at once, matching one North Atlantic storm affecting both North America and Europe.