Category 5 Super Typhoon Meranti is strongest storm of 2016 season
 

Category 5 Super Typhoon Meranti is strongest storm of 2016 season
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Churning the waters of the **rthwest Pacific is the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2016 **rthern Hemisphere season: Super Typhoon Meranti.*

The storm, which according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center had maximum sustained winds of 155 k**ts, or nearly 180 miles per hour, as of Monday morning eastern time, has southern Taiwan and coastal China in its sights for the middle of the week.*

Thankfully, though, it may be reaching its maximum potential intensity far from land.

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Super Typhoon Meranti is the seventh category 4 or 5 storm to form during the **rthern Hemisphere's 2016 storm season, but beat Super Typhoon Nepartak in terms of its estimated maximum sustained winds.* Read more...

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