Typhoon Bavi (2026)

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Typhoon Bavi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Inday, was an extremely powerful, large, and long-lived tropical cyclone that affected the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the Philippines, China, and parts of Taiwan in early July 2026. The ninth named tropical storm, third typhoon and second violent typhoon of the 2026 Pacific typhoon season, Bavi was the second violent typhoon of the season to affect the Mariana Islands, after Typhoon Sinlaku made landfall on Tinian in April. The origins of Bavi started as a disturbance just east-southeast of Kwajalein on June 25, over favorable conditions. Seven days later, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) designated the disturbance as Tropical Depression 09W. It later received the name Bavi by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) early on July 2 as it continued to organize over very warm sea surface temperatures and low vertical wind shear. Both agencies later upgraded Bavi into a typhoon as it quickly intensified. Rapid intensification...

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