Revealed On 9 Nov 2025
Tremendous Storm Fung-wong, essentially the most highly effective storm to threaten the Philippines this yr, has begun battering its northeastern coast, killing at the least one particular person thus far, disrupting energy and forcing practically a million folks to evacuate as authorities urgently name for residents in high-risk areas to hunt quick shelter.
With an infinite 1,600km (994-mile) rain and wind band able to affecting two-thirds of the archipelago, Fung-wong is hanging because the nation nonetheless is struggling to recuperate from Storm Kalmaegi, which killed at the least 224 folks in central provinces on Tuesday earlier than shifting on to Vietnam, the place it killed 5 extra folks.
Fung-wong may make landfall on the primary island of Luzon as early as Sunday night time. Greater than 916,860 residents have fled weak areas in northeastern provinces, together with the Bicol area, which faces twin threats from cyclones and potential mudflows from the Mayon volcano.
Throughout a televised handle on Saturday, Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr, who coordinates catastrophe response, warned of Fung-wong’s probably catastrophic impression. The storm threatens huge areas, together with the already devastated Cebu province and metropolitan Manila, the nation’s capital and monetary hub.
The storm, the twenty first to hit the Philippines this yr, has sustained winds of 185km/h (115mph) and gusts as excessive as 230km/h (140mph).
In line with the Workplace of Civil Defence, greater than 30 million folks might be uncovered to Fung-wong’s hazards. Whereas the Philippines hasn’t requested worldwide help after Kalmaegi, Teodoro indicated that the USA and Japan could present help.
As Fung-wong approached, a number of jap communities skilled energy outages, reported Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro, deputy administrator of the Workplace of Civil Defence.
Northern provinces within the storm’s projected path have closed faculties and most authorities workplaces for Monday and Tuesday. Transportation disruptions included 325 cancelled home flights, 61 worldwide flight cancellations and greater than 6,600 folks stranded at 109 seaports the place maritime journey has been suspended.
