Typhoon Yutu

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Typhoon Yutu, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Rosita, was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that caused catastrophic destruction on the islands of Saipan and Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands, and later impacted the Philippines in October 2018. It was the strongest typhoon ever recorded to impact the Mariana Islands before Typhoon Bavi in 2026, and is tied as the second-strongest tropical cyclone to strike the United States and its unincorporated territories by both wind speed and barometric pressure, behind Bavi. It also tied Typhoon Kong-rey as the most powerful tropical cyclone worldwide in 2018. The twenty-sixth named storm and the twelfth typhoon of the 2018 Pacific typhoon season, Yutu originated as a tropical depression moving westward around the Marshall Islands on October 20, becoming a tropical storm by October 22 and receiving its name from the Japan Meteorological Agency. Favorable conditions led to a period of rapid intensification as it moved west-northwestward...

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