Despite the season 's late start , the 2016 season was a normal and active season with a total of 53 tropical depressions , of which 26 became tropical storms . After five months of inactivity , the first tropical depression developed on May 26 , making it the fifth-latest season for a system to form . According to existing records only four other seasons started later — the 1973 , 1983 , 1984 , and 1998 seasons . Tropical activity throughout the basin became marginally favorable for development , and two tropical depressions developed during June . On July 3 , Nepartak became the first named tropical storm , making it the second-latest first named storm on record . Nepartak 's naming ended a 199-day period ( from December 17 , 2015 to July 2 , 2016 ) during which no named storm was active within the basin ; this period tied the 199-day period from December 22 , 1997 to July 8 , 1998 . Nepartak reached Category 5 super typhoon intensity before making landfall in Taiwan and East China , causing a total of US$ 1.52 billion of damage . In late July , Tropical Storm Mirinae reached its peak intensity while making landfall over Red River Delta in Northern Vietnam . The storm caused a total of US$ 334 million of damage in Hainan and Vietnam . Later , Nida reached near typhoon strength ; it affected the Philippines , South China and Vietnam , but its damage was lower than that of Mirinae . The season became more active in August , with 7 named storms . Except Dianmu , which affected South China , Indochina , all of the tropical cyclones in August affected Japan and the Russian Far East . By the end of August , three storms ( Chanthu , Lionrock and Kompasu ) had hit the Japanese island of Hokkaidō , the most since 1951 . Lionrock was a large , powerful , long-lived and erratic tropical cyclone which caused significant flooding and casualties in North Korea and Japan in late August
significant flooding and casualties in North Korea
2016 North Korean floods
2016 Pacific typhoon season