World’s Strongest Storm In 2020 Makes Landfall within the Philippines

 World’s Strongest Storm In 2020 Makes Landfall within the Philippines

World’s Strongest Super Typhoon Goni makes landfall in Philippines; millions evacuated

Worlds strongest storm has made landfall within the Philippines. 1,000,000 residents within the southern a part of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon were evacuated. The category 5 storm with landfall on Sunday. It carried wind speed of 215 kph (133 miles)and gusts of up to 265 kph (164 mph).

It is among the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines since Haiyan, which killed quite 6,300 people in 2013.

As reported by the administrative unit , Super Typhoon Goni first hit land before dawn Sunday over Catanduanes province.It subsequently pummeled Albay. The typhoon is predicted to cross the southern Luzon and Metro Manila area from the afternoon before exiting land tonight or Monday, bringing “intense” rain to the capital.

“Goni is that the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone” in history, said Jeff Masters, a meteorologist with Yale Climate Connections and co-founder of Weather Underground.

The cyclone comes days after Typhoon Molave lashed the Southeast Asian country , leaving a minimum of 22 dead and causing a minimum of 1.81 billion pesos ($37.4 million) of injury to crops.

Another typhoon, Atsani, is gaining strength just outside the Philippines.