Monster typhoon in the Pacific Ocean is bearing down on group of remote U.S. islands

Latest on Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) is exiting the Philippines today but still brushing northern Palawan, bringing lingering rain before heading toward Vietnam, where flooding is already a major concern. Meanwhile, Fung-Wong (Uwan) is developing south of Guam and could become a super typhoon as it tracks west across the Philippine Sea. Current guidance from both the ECMWF and GFS shows a potential landfall over northeastern Luzon by late Sunday into Monday, though intensity could fluctuate dependi

BREAKING: Super Typhoon #Neoguri is now a VIOLENT typhoon by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) — the highest classification of a tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific (WPAC) basin — with 10-min sustained winds of 105 kts (~195 km/h). With a central pressure of 920 hPa, it is officially the most-intense Pacific storm of the year and the second most-intense worldwide, after Hurricane Erin in the North Atlantic (NATL) basin with 915 hPa. In the JTWC scale, it is still assessed as a Category 4 typ