Abstract:There are 29 named typhoons formed in western North Pacific and the South China Sea in 2018 and the number is more than the climate average. Typhoon genesis is much more active in the South China Sea. Ten typhoons landed on the coast of China and are much more than the average (7 typhoons), but the average typhoon intensity is weaker than the climate average. Most of typhoons landed in Zhejiang and Shanghai in July and August and then move northward, causing wide ranges of precipitation, torrential rain, and many rivers exceeding the flood warning line. Typhoon AMPIL (1810), YAGI (1814), and RUMBIA (1818) successively made landfall in East China within one month and then moved into North China and Northeast China maintaining tropical storm intensity for a long time, which brought heavy rainfall to East China, North China, and Northeast China. Typhoon EWINIAR (1804) moved slowly and interacted with southwest monsoon circulation, causing a long period of continuous strong precipitation in Guangdong and other regions. Typhoon MANGKHUT (1822) is the strongest typhoon landed in China in 2018 with obviously larger radius of gale bringing a wider range of strong winds and heavy precipitation for a long time to Guangdong, Hong Kong, and other regions. The track forecast error in 2018 is smaller than that in 2017, but there is still no obvious progress in the typhoon intensity forecast.