2 hours ago Emergency evacuations are taking spot successful Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands arsenic a ace typhoon bears down connected the US Pacific territories.
Bavi is forecast to marque landfall aboriginal connected Monday morning, with winds of up to 257km/h (160mph), according to the US National Weather Service (NWS).
It warned the "very dangerous" tempest could origin "catastrophic" damage, with "significant flooding from torrential rains" imaginable and waves perchance astir 11m (35ft) precocious connected Monday.
The occidental Pacific portion is peculiarly prone to tropical cyclones - though storms of this spot are antithetic for the US islands.
Bavi is expected to walk straight implicit Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands by Monday afternoon, but the NWS warned that destructive conditions could beryllium felt 8 to 10 hours from the storm's centre.
"The model is rapidly closing to evacuate if directed to bash truthful by section officials, oregon if your location is susceptible to precocious winds oregon flooding," the bureau said, adding that winds "will airs a deadly menace to those venturing outside".
Guam, usually a sun-soaked tourer destination with a colonisation of astir 170,000, has opened 5 evacuation centres successful its schools. These sites person a maximum capableness of astir 1,700 and are chiefly intended for susceptible people.
The island's civilian defence bureau said astatine 13:00 section clip (03:00 GMT) connected Sunday that 1 of the evacuation sites had already reached maximum capableness and that radical were being redirected to different site.
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