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English: This map shows the tracks of all tropical cyclones in the 2015 Pacific typhoon season. The points show the location of each storm at 6-hour intervals. The colour represents the storm's maximum sustained wind speeds as classified in the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale (see below), and the shape of the data points represent the type of the storm.

Saffir–Simpson scale

Tropical depression

≤38 mph

≤62 km/h

Category 3

111–129 mph

178–208 km/h

Tropical storm

39–73 mph

63–118 km/h

Category 4

130–156 mph

209–251 km/h

Category 1

74–95 mph

119–153 km/h

Category 5

≥157 mph

≥252 km/h

Category 2

96–110 mph

154–177 km/h

Unknown

Storm type
	Tropical cyclone
	Subtropical cyclone
	Extratropical cyclone / Remnant low / Tropical disturbance / Monsoon depression

Date

January 1–December 23

Source

Created using WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Tracks. The background image is from NASA [1]. The tracking data is from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center's best track database

Author

Keith Edkins

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This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Keith Edkins. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
Keith Edkins grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:48, 29 February 2020	4,000 × 3,000 (7.77 MB)	Supportstorm (talk \| contribs)	Primarily JTWC/JMA data
	05:28, 9 December 2018	4,000 × 3,530 (11.28 MB)	Supportstorm (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 04:05, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
	04:32, 28 August 2018	4,000 × 3,000 (10.04 MB)	David Petrovsky (talk \| contribs)	Added the dimensions and size both
	04:05, 11 October 2016	4,000 × 3,530 (11.28 MB)	Supportstorm (talk \| contribs)	Fixed 12W
	04:01, 11 October 2016	4,000 × 3,530 (11.29 MB)	Supportstorm (talk \| contribs)	Best tracks/ operational JMA TD data
	16:43, 1 January 2016	4,000 × 3,460 (10.91 MB)	Supportstorm (talk \| contribs)	Update
	17:00, 26 November 2015	4,000 × 3,460 (10.88 MB)	Supportstorm (talk \| contribs)	Update
	03:41, 17 October 2015	4,000 × 3,540 (12.74 MB)	Cyclonebiskit (talk \| contribs)	Update (don't forget to change the line size "lines --0.04")
	05:43, 8 October 2015	4,000 × 3,460 (10.78 MB)	Supportstorm (talk \| contribs)	Update
	16:47, 28 September 2015	4,000 × 3,540 (12.66 MB)	Cyclonebiskit (talk \| contribs)	update, bump res to 4k