Which had more tropical storms, the 2015 Pacific typhoon season or the 2014 Pacific typhoon season?
2015 Pacific typhoon season
2014 Pacific typhoon season
The 2014 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly below average season, featuring 23 tropical storms, 11 typhoons, and 8 super typhoons.
 The season's peak months August and September saw minimal activity caused by an unusually strong and a persistent suppressing phase of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO).
 The season ran throughout 2014, though most tropical cyclones typically develop between May and October.
 The season began with the development of Tropical Storm Lingling on January 18, and ended after Tropical Storm Jangmi which dissipated on January 1 of the next year.
2015 Pacific typhoon season
The 2015 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly above average season that produced 27 tropical storms, 18 typhoons, and nine super typhoons.
 The season ran throughout 2015, though most tropical cyclones typically develop between May and November.
 The season's first named storm, Mekkhala, developed on January 15, while the season's last named storm, Melor, dissipated on December 17.
 The season saw at least one named tropical system forming in each of every month, the first time since 1965.
 Similar to the previous season, this season saw a high number of super typhoons.
 Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) during 2015 was extremely high, the second highest since the 1970, and the 2015 ACE has been attributed in part to anthropogenic warming.
Typhoon Hagupit (2008)
Typhoon Hagupit, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Nina, is recognised as the 14th Tropical Storm, the 12th Severe Tropical Storm and the 10th Typhoon of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season by the Japan Meteorological Agency who are the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre for the North Western Pacific.
 The Joint Typhoon Warning Center have also recognised Hagupit as the 11th typhoon, 16th tropical storm, and the 18th tropical depression of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season. Timeline of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season
This timeline documents all of the events of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season.
 Most of the tropical cyclones forming between May and November.
 The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator between 100°E and the International Date Line.
 Tropical storms that form in the entire Western Pacific basin are assigned a name by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
 Tropical depressions that form in this basin are given a number with a "W" suffix by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
 In addition, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones (including tropical depressions) that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility.
 These names, however, are not in common use outside of the Philippines. Typhoon Nesat (2011)
Typhoon Nesat, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pedring, was the most powerful tropical cyclone to directly impact China since 2005.
 It also struck the Philippines during the 2011 Pacific typhoon season, killing 83 people.
 It is the 17th named storm, the 11th severe tropical storm, the 7th typhoon and overall, the 30th tropical cyclone to be monitored by the Japan Meteorological Agency(JMA) during the year.
 Nesat came exactly two years after Typhoon Ketsana made landfall in the Philippines as the most devastating typhoon in the 2009 Pacific typhoon season with a damage of 1.09 billion and 747 fatalities.
 Nesat was also the first of twin tropical cyclones to batter the Philippines within one week during September 2011, the second was Nalgae. 2010 Pacific typhoon season
The 2010 Pacific typhoon season was the least active Pacific typhoon season on record, featuring only 14 named storms; seven of them strengthened into typhoons while one reached super typhoon intensity.
 Very unusual, with an exceptionally low activity within the basin, the Pacific typhoon season during 2010 was much weaker compared to the Atlantic hurricane season.
 The last and only time that such a record like this occurred was during 2005.
 During the season no storms have made landfall in mainland Japan, the only second such occurrence since 1988.
 Also, all of the 14 named storms developed west of 150°E.
 Moreover, the season had an index total Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) of 115, which is the second lowest in the basin after 1999.
 It was also the fourth consecutive year with a below average ACE index. 1977 Pacific typhoon season
The 1977 Pacific typhoon season was one of the least active Pacific typhoon seasons on record, with only 19 tropical storms forming.
 It was also the second of the known typhoon seasons during the satellite era (since 1960) to not produce a Category 5 equivalent super typhoon.
(After the 1974 season.)
 The season's first storm, Severe Tropical Storm Patsy, formed on March 23 and the last, Typhoon Mary, dissipated on January 2, 1978.
 With Mary spanning two calendar years, it became the fourth typhoon to do so since 1945.
 Since then, two other typhoons have achieved this feat. Timeline of the 2014 Pacific typhoon season
This timeline documents all of the events of the 2014 Pacific typhoon season.
 Most of the tropical cyclones forming between May and November.
 The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator between 100°E and the International Date Line.
 Tropical storms that form in the entire Western Pacific basin are assigned a name by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
 Tropical depressions that form in this basin are given a number with a "W" suffix by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
 In addition, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones (including tropical depressions) that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility.
 These names, however, are not in common use outside of the Philippines. 1994 Pacific typhoon season
The 1994 Pacific typhoon season was an extremely active season in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Western North Pacific, with a total of 32 tropical storms, where 19 of them reached typhoon strength, during the course of the season.
 The season had no official bounds and it ran year-round in 1994, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between May and November.
 Tropical storms that formed west of the date line were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
 The World Meteorological Organization-designated Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre for tropical cyclones for the region is the Japan Meteorological Agency.
 Tropical depressions that entered or formed in the Philippine area of responsibility were assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA.
 This resulted in some storms having two names. Typhoon Soudelor
Typhoon Soudelor, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Hanna, was the third most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2015 after Hurricane Patricia and Cyclone Pam as well as the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season.
 Soudelor had severe impacts in the Northern Mariana Islands, Taiwan, and eastern China, resulting in 40 confirmed fatalities.
 Lesser effects were felt in Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.
 The thirteenth named storm of the annual typhoon season, Soudelor formed as a tropical depression near Pohnpei on July 29.
 The system strengthened slowly at first before entering a period of rapid intensification on August 2.
 Soudelor made landfall on Saipan later that day, causing extensive damage.
 Owing to favorable environmental conditions, the typhoon further deepened and reached its peak intensity with ten-minute maximum sustained winds of 215 km/h (130 mph) and a central atmospheric pressure of 900 hPa (mbar; 26.58 inHg) on August 3.
 The Joint Typhoon Warning Center assessed one-minute sustained winds at 285 km/h (180 mph), making Soudelor a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon.
 Steady weakening ensued thereafter as the storm moved generally west-northwest.
 Soudelor made landfall over Hualien, Taiwan, late on August 7 and emerged over in the Taiwan Strait early the next day.
 The typhoon soon moved inland over eastern China and degraded to a tropical depression by August 9.