A powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the Capital Manila is located. Super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km h. Our weather forecaster Helen Willetts has more. Hello. This large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. Once it moves out into the south china seas open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. So some destructive wi
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a powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the capital manila is located. super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km/h. our weather forecaster helen willetts has more. hello. this large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. once it moves out into the south china sea s open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. so some des
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