Super-Typhoon Mawar/Betty (27-28 May)

Super typhoon Mawar from May 27-28 2023 as seen from the JMA Himawari 8 weather satellite in geostationary orbit.

Storm info:

Typhoon Mawar, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Betty, is a weakening tropical cyclone currently near the Philippines. It is the strongest Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone on record in the month of May, and the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2023 so far. The second named storm and the first typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season, Mawar originated from an area of low-pressure south-southwest of Chuuk Lagoon that developed into a tropical depression on May 19. It fluctuated in intensity and became a tropical storm, after which it intensified into a Category 4-equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. It then underwent an eyewall replacement cycle, then reintensified to attain 1-minute sustained winds of 160 kn (295 km/h; 185 mph) according to the JTWC, becoming a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon.

Typhoon Mawar passed north of Guam as a Category 4-equivalent typhoon with maximum sustained winds up to 140 mph with gusts up to 165 mph on May 24, bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rain marking as the strongest storm to affect the island since Typhoon Pongsona in 2002. Two men are presumed dead after going missing in the waters off Guam.

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