Strongest Storm of 2020 Typhoon Goni Forms in the Pacific Moving Towards the Philippines

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Enhanced infrared satellite imagery shows a very compact system with a 11 nautical miles pinhole eye visible.

The Western Pacific season activity is significantly increasing lately. Soon after a damaging Typhoon Molave over the Philippines and Vietnam, a new extremely rapid development of a typhoon is underway. Typhoon Goni has become the strongest Earth’s storm of the year! A violent storm is moving towards its potentially destructive landfall in Luzon this Sunday.

Explosive development into a powerful typhoon is increasingly likely, as weather models hint that Typhoon Goni could maintain a Category 5 strength over the next 36 hours.

A potentially destructive landfall is likely somewhere in central Luzon on early Sunday.

After the landfall, Goni weakens while crossing the mountainous terrain of central Luzon and then the system re-emerges into the South China Sea and head towards its secondary landfall in Vietnam.

The environmental conditions over the region suggest that more storms is increasingly likely over the Western Pacific next week.

 

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Typhoon Goni is barrelling across the Philippines today, bringing with it "catastrophic" 225km/h (140mph) winds and torrential rainfall.

At least four people are reported to have died. Homes have been damaged and roads inundated with flash flooding.
Goni made landfall as a super typhoon at Catanduanes island on Sunday at 04:50 local time (19:50 GMT Saturday).
It has since weakened as it crosses the main island of Luzon, where the capital Manila is located.
But forecasters, in a severe weather bulletin, still warned of "catastrophic violent winds and intense to torrential rainfall" as well as flash-flooding, landslides and "sediment-laden streamflows".
Goni - known as Rolly in the Philippines - is the most powerful storm to hit the country since Typhoon Haiyan killed more than 6,000 people in 2013.