NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory – Typhoon warnings are in effects for parts of Palau and Yap as Super Typhoon Haiyan moves west towards the Philippines with maximum sustained winds around 160 mph. The Suomi NPP satellite passed over the storm at 02:25 UTC on November 6, 2013, capturing this image with the VIIRS instrument. The storm is expected to intensify slightly before it makes initial landfall on Friday, November the 8th. After passing over the Philippines, Haiyan is then expected to continue heading west towards Vietnam.