{"id":781849,"date":"2026-07-05T13:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781849\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:26:47","slug":"super-typhoon-bavi-is-one-of-earths-strongest-storms-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781849\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Bavi is one of Earth\u2019s strongest storms in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on Jul. 4, 2026, 7:42 PM<\/p>\n

Bavi is the equivalent of a Category 5 storm as it moves toward the Northern Mariana Islands this weekend<\/p>\n

Super Typhoon Bavi remains the strongest storm on Earth<\/a> this weekend as it churns through the western Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

Residents of several islands are on high alert as the intense typhoon<\/a> approaches the region with destructive winds, flooding rain, and a dangerous storm surge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DON\u2019T MISS: What\u2019s the difference between hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones?<\/a><\/p>\n

Bavi rapidly intensified<\/a> into the equivalent of a scale-topping Category 5<\/a> storm on Friday, making it the western Pacific’s second super typhoon of 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Super<\/p>\n

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported on Saturday afternoon that Super Typhoon Bavi packed maximum sustained winds of 260 km\/h and a minimum central pressure of 919 mb.<\/p>\n

Bavi\u2019s intensity may fluctuate over the next day as it undergoes eyewall replacement cycles<\/a>, but \u201cthe environment continues to be highly favorable for maintaining a high-end storm,\u201d according to the JTWC.<\/p>\n

The Northern Mariana Islands and Guam will feel the effects of the storm by the end of the weekend. These territories of the United States are collectively home to more than 200,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Jul. 4, 2026, 7:42 PM Bavi is the equivalent of a Category 5 storm as it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,23188,77,44,41,39,42,40,49958,203788],"class_list":["post-781849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hurricane","tag-international","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tropics","tag-typhoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}