Typhoon Goni

Typhoon Goni, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Rolly, is a strong tropical cyclone that made landfall as an extremely powerful Category 5–super typhoon on Catanduanes Island in the Philippines and became the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record. 

The 19th named storm, ninth typhoon, and second super typhoon of the 2020 Pacific typhoon season, Goni started as a tropical depression southwest of Guam on October 26. It was then named as Tropical Storm Goni on October 27. 

Goni maintained Category 5 strength for over a day, before making landfall on Catanduanes as an extremely powerful typhoon, with 10-minute sustained winds of 220 km/h (140 mph), 1-minute sustained winds of 315 km/h (195 mph), and a minimum central pressure of 884 hPa (mbar; 26.72 inHg). 

It is the strongest tropical cyclone observed worldwide thus far in 2020 and one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record.

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Category:October 2020 events
Category:November 2020 events
Category:2020 in the Philippines
Category:2020 disasters in Asia
Category:2020 Pacific typhoon season
Category:2020s disasters in the Philippines
Category:Typhoons in the Philippines
Category:Tropical cyclones in Asia
Category:Retired tropical cyclone names