Typhoon Yagi was a very powerful, very destructive and very deadly super typhoon during May of 2019. It developed from a low pressure area near Guam on May 7th, before steadily intensifying as it moved towards the Philippines. Typhoon Yagi then made landfall in Luzon as a category 5 super typhoon, causing extreme damage, before moving away from the area and making landfall as a category 4 super typhoon in Taiwan, with 155 mph winds. From here, Yagi moved out into the Pacific, weakening slowly as it paralleled the coast of Japan, becoming extratropical on May 20th. The remnants of the former super typhoon then persisted for 2 days, dissipating near the International Dateline and Alaska by the afternoon of May 22nd. During its lifecycle, Yagi interacted with a monsoonal trough located over t