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3 unusual facts about Meteorological history of Typhoon Haiyan


Meteorological history of Typhoon Haiyan

At 1200 UTC, the storm makes its last Philippine landfall at Busuanga, Palawan as a category 3 storm.

At 0133 UTC, the eyewall began to hit the island of Cebu, at Daanbantayan.

Several hours later, the eye of the cyclone made its first landfall in the Philippines at Guiuan, Eastern Samar, without any change in intensity; if verified, this would make Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone to make a landfall on record, surpassing the old record of 305 km/h (190 mph) set by Atlantic Hurricane Camille in 1969.



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