Super Typhoon Rolly Hits Phil
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated as Typhoon Rolly, the Philippines’ 18th and the world’s strongest so far this year, swept the country, particularly south of the main island Luzon, over the weekend. Typhoon Goni, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Rolly, was an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone that made landfall as a Category 5–equivalent super typhoon on Catanduanes in the Philippines and became the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record by 1-minute winds, eclipsing the previous record held by Haiyan and Meranti. The nineteenth named storm, ninth typhoon, and second super typhoon of the 2020 Pacific typhoon season, Goni originated as a tropical depression south of Guam on October 26. It was then named as Tropical Storm Goni on October 27. On the next day, Goni explosively intensified over the Philippine Sea, becoming a Category 5–equivalent super typhoon on October 30. Goni maintained Category 5 strength for over a day, before making landfall...