17 Dec 2021 By Know Muslim
It was packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres an hour as it made landfall on the southern island of Siargao at 1:30pm, the state weather forecaster said.
“This monster storm is frightening and threatens to hit coastal communities like a freight train,” said Alberto Bocanegra, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the Philippines.
“We are very concerned that climate change is making typhoons more ferocious and unpredictable.”