{"id":100672,"date":"2023-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=c7275a93be618ebd58bd0f015e8022e0"},"modified":"2023-05-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:00:00","slug":"typhoon-mawar-hits-american-guam-island-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/typhoon-mawar-hits-american-guam-island-in-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon (Mawar) hits American Guam Island in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"
Super Typhoon Mawar hit Guam as a Category 4 storm Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rain, marking the strongest storm to hit the U.S. Pacific territory in decades.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mawar was passing through the Rota channel clipping the northern part of Guam before 9 p.m. local time, with warnings in effect for winds of 115 mph or greater until 10:45 p.m. for tornado-like damage The typhoon’s eye wall passed over the northern tip of Guam around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday evening with 145 mph winds, the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mawar is located just 15 miles north, northeast of Guam moving to the northwest at 8 mph, according to the latest advisory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation, Coordinator for the weather service\/ livestream Landon Aydlett warned.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Locals must take cover now away from windows, with conditions expected to gradually subside Thursday morning,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Typhoon warnings were in place for Guam and Rota. Typhoon-force winds extended 50 miles from the storm’s center, and winds with tropical storm force reached up to 140 miles from the center, the weather service said in an update.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Super Typhoon Mawar hit Guam as a Category 4 storm Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rain, marking the strongest storm to hit the U.S. Pacific territory in decades.Mawar was passing through the Rota channel clipping the northern part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1781],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n