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brooklynite

(94,591 posts) Wed Oct 24, 2018, 11:09 AM Oct 2018

Category 5 Super Typhoon Yutu Is Now Striking U.S. Territories of Saipan, Tinian

Source: The Weather Channel

Super Typhoon Yutu is striking parts of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean and has become the strongest typhoon of record to pass near the U.S. territories of Saipan and Tinian.

The center of Yutu is now less than 50 miles south-southeast of the islands of Saipan and Tinian in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, located about 120 miles north-northeast of Guam.

Maximum sustained winds are now solidly Category 5 intensity, near 180 mph, as of the latest advisory from the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

The intense eyewall of Yutu is now clearly visible from the National Weather Service Doppler radar at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. There have been numerous lightning strikes within Yutu's eyewall, indicative of an intensifying tropical cyclone.

Read more: https://weather.com/storms/typhoon/news/2018-10-24-super-typhoon-yutu-mariana-islands-guam-western-pacific

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Category 5 Super Typhoon Yutu Is Now Striking U.S. Territories of Saipan, Tinian (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2018 OP

I hope the people of the US territory stay safe..................... turbinetree Oct 2018 #1

Good Gawd! I hope the islands are not wiped out pandr32 Oct 2018 #2

NOAA: Super Typhoon Yutu strongest storm to ever hit U.S. soil muriel_volestrangler Oct 2018 #3

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)

1. I hope the people of the US territory stay safe.....................

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2018, 12:16 PM

Oct 2018

and will see if the orange buffoon will visit...............me think's not............Air Force One doesn't hold enough Paper Rolls, and the population has a different skin color..................

pandr32

(11,588 posts)

2. Good Gawd! I hope the islands are not wiped out

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Wed Oct 24, 2018, 01:00 PM

Oct 2018

muriel_volestrangler

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3. NOAA: Super Typhoon Yutu strongest storm to ever hit U.S. soil

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Oct 25, 2018, 04:34 AM

Oct 2018

With sustained winds of 178 mph as its eye passed directly over the island of Tinian, Super Typhoon Yutu was the strongest storm on record to ever hit U.S. soil and tied for the most powerful storm on earth in 2018, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"Tinian has been devastated by Typhoon Yutu," Mayor Joey P. San Nicolas said Thursday. "The homes, main roads have been destroyed. Our critical infrastructure has been compromised. We currently have no power and water. Our ports at this time are inaccessible and several points within the island are inaccessible."

The power plant has been damaged, and the power "distribution system is completely destroyed,” San Nicolas said.

The items most needed by residents are the basics: food and drinking water.

https://eu.guampdn.com/story/news/2018/10/25/noaa-super-typhoon-yutu-strongest-storm-ever-hit-u-s-soil/1758001002/

Tinian has a population of about 3,500; Saipan, less than 20 miles away, 50,000.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/25/us/typhoon-yutu-wxc-intl/index.html

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