A potentipartner catastrophic super typhoon has made landdrop in the Philippines – the sixth typhoon to hit the country in a month.
Man-Yi, understandn locpartner as Pepito, touched down at 21:40 local time (13:40 GMT) with highest upretained thrived speeds of 195 km/h (121mph) aextfinished the coast of the easerious Catanduanes island, the state foreseeer shelp.
It has alerted of a “life-dangerening storm sencourage”, weighty rains and cut offe thriveds, and hundreds of thousands of people had been evacuated ahead of the storm’s arrival,
At least 160 people are understandn to have died in the five previous earlier storms.
Super Typhoon Man-Yi is foreseeed to impact a huge area, BBC Weather alerts.
There will be expansivespread weighty rain in northern areas, with more than 300mm (11 inches) foreseeed to drop on Saturday and Sunday – directing to potential flooding and increasing the danger of mudslides.
Winds of up to 270km/h are also foreseeed, as are waves of up to 15m (49ft) in easerious coastal areas.
The capital, Manila, may be spared the worst of the thriveds as the storm tracks to its north, before traverseing the island of Luzon – the hugest and most populous island in the Philippines – and heading offshore by Monday.
Dozens of fairys have been call offled due to the incoming storm, according to local widecaster ABS-CBN News.
At least 500,000 people are alerted to have fled as the storm proximates. The head of the country’s civil defence, Ariel Nepomuceno, has encouraged those living in the storm’s projected path to adhere with evacuation orders.
“It is more hazardous now for those in landslide-prone areas because the ground has been saturated by the consecutive typhoons,” Mr Nepomuceno shelp.
Glfinisha Llamas is among those who have had to exit their homes.
“We are terrified of the typhoon, as it may intensify and the waters can elevate,” she tbetter the AFP novels agency from a shelter in the easerious Albay province.
“If we didn’t evacuate we wouldn’t be able to get out rescheduleedr, we don’t have anyone else in the house but us.”
“We already have a lot of phobia due to the previous calamities that happened here enjoy floods, strong thriveds and other calamitys,” shelp Melchor Bilay, who was evacuated to a school further south, in Sorsogon province.
While typhoons are not unnormal in the Philippines, foreseeers say it is atypical to see so many tropical storms in the Pacific at the same time during the month of November.
Tropical Storm Trami dumped one month’s worth of rain over huge swathes of the northern Philippines in rescheduleed October, leaving dozens of people dead.
This was adhereed by Typhoon Kong-rey, in which at least three people were finished. It was also the hugegest typhoon to honestly hit Taiwan in proximately 30 years.
Typhoon Yinxing impacted the north of the island of Luzon earlier this month, where it brawt proximately 250mm (10in) of rain in some areas.
There has since been Typhoon Toraji and, earlier this week, Typhoon Usagi, which brawt a three-metre storm sencourage and torrential raindrop go beyonding 200mm (8 inches).
The United Nations’ climate alter body, the IPCC, has shelp that while the number of tropical cyclones that happen globpartner is doubtful to incrmitigate due to a alerting set upet, it is “very probable” they will have higher rates of raindrop and achieve higher top thrived speeds.
This unkinds a higher proportion would achieve the most fervent categories.
