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Typhoon Mangkhut
September 18 , 2018
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- Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall on the northeastern tip of Luzon island in the Philippines with the top of the scale Category 5 winds of 165 mph.
- The name Mangkhut is a Thai word for the fruit mangosteen. In the Philippines, the typhoon is locally known as Ompong.
- The Hong Kong Observatory reported Mangkhut was the most powerful cyclone to hit the city since 1979.
- The deadliest storm on record in the Philippines was Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
- Hurricanes and typhoons are the same type of storm. Both are tropical cyclones. But those that occur in the Pacific west of the International Date Line are called typhoons.
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