MANILA, Philippines – "Yolanda" (international name Haiyan) is the "most powerful typhoon for 2013", US meteorologists said Thursday, as they classified the supertyphoon as Category 5. "The most powerful tropical cyclone of 2013 anywhere on Earth is raging toward the Philippines," the US-based The Weather Channel reported Wednesday at 5:16 p.m. EST (6 a.m. Thursday Philippine time) . "As of late Wednesday afternoon (US time), Super Typhoon Haiyan had top sustained winds near 175 (281 kilometers per hour) mph according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center," it added. The JTWC said in an update at 5 a.m. that Yolanda was expected to remain a supertyphoon in the nex...
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