Typhoon Goni

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Typhoon Goni, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Rolly, was an extremely powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that made landfall in the Philippines as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon in late October 2020. It is the strongest tropical cyclone on record by one-minute maximum sustained winds at landfall. The nineteenth named storm, ninth typhoon, and second super typhoon of the 2020 Pacific typhoon season, Goni originated as a tropical depression south portion 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 in Catanduanes at peak intensity, with 10-minute sustained winds of 220 km/h (140 mph), and one-minute sustained winds of 315 km/h (195 mph), with a minimum central pressure of 905 hPa (mbar; 26.72 inHg). It was the most intense tropical...

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