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Typhoon Champi Batters Guam, Then Disrupts Taiwan and East Asia

Super Typhoon Champi struck Guam in mid-October 2026 with destructive winds and outages, then weakened and moved toward Taiwan, Japan, and eastern China, prompting school and market closures, hundreds of flight cancellations, evacuations, and at least one death in Taiwan.

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Oct 24, 9:54 AM nypost.com Massive waves thrash Taiwan as super typhoon Champi slams island
Oct 24, 3:33 AM france24.com Typhoon Champi batters Taiwan
Oct 24, 2:00 AM scmp.com Thousands evacuated and flights grounded as Typhoon Champi hits eastern China
Oct 23, 10:26 PM dw.com Taiwan: Typhoon Champi leaves 1 dead, over 500 injured
Oct 23, 10:00 PM abcnews.com Typhoon Champi kills 1 and injures 350 in Taiwan overnight as storm weakens
Oct 23, 9:52 PM japantimes.co.jp Typhoon Champi traveling north of Okinawa islands
Oct 23, 7:22 PM theguardian.com Typhoon Champi kills one and injures more than 500 in Taiwan as it heads to China
Oct 23, 6:57 PM timesofindia.indiatimes.com Watch: Giant waves crash into Taiwan as Typhoon Champi leaves over 500 injured; 1 dead
Oct 23, 4:10 PM aljazeera.com Typhoon Champi hits Taiwan, killing one and injuring 350
Oct 23, 8:50 AM phys.org Taiwan warns of 'destructive winds' as Typhoon Champi batters island
Oct 23, 5:17 AM aljazeera.com Typhoon Champi unleashes huge waves along Taiwan’s coast
Oct 23, 1:47 AM abc.net.au Taiwan shuts down and grounds flights ahead of Typhoon Champi
Oct 23, 1:45 AM bbc.co.uk Hundreds of flights cancelled as Typhoon Champi shuts Taiwan
Oct 23, 1:30 AM phys.org Taiwan shuts down as Typhoon Champi approaches
Oct 23, 1:00 AM scmp.com Typhoon Champi grounds hundreds of flights in Taiwan, threatens eastern mainland China
Oct 23, 12:30 AM euronews.com Taiwan: Deadly Typhoon Champi brings travel chaos and school closures
Oct 22, 11:41 PM abcnews.com Taiwan shuts schools and grounds flights as Typhoon Champi brushes by
Oct 22, 11:40 PM dw.com Taiwan braces as El Nino-supercharged Typhoon Champi approaches island
Oct 22, 11:39 PM scmp.com Super Typhoon Champi disrupts more than 70 flights between Hong Kong and Taiwan
Oct 22, 8:00 PM france24.com Taiwan shuts down schools and businesses as Typhoon Champi approaches
Oct 22, 7:06 PM thehindu.com Taiwan shuts down ahead of weakening Typhoon Champi, hundreds of flights cancelled
Oct 22, 5:18 PM bbc.com Typhoon Champi roars towards Taiwan, Japan and China bringing heavy rain and wind
Oct 22, 4:31 PM reuters.com Taiwan shuts down ahead of Typhoon Champi, hundreds of flights cancelled
Oct 22, 6:28 AM bloomberg.com Typhoon Champi Shuts Taiwan’s $5 Trillion Stock Market
Oct 22, 5:37 AM nytimes.com As Typhoon Champi Nears, Taiwan’s Mayors Bet on a Popular Day Off
Oct 22, 1:42 AM scmp.com Super Typhoon Champi: Hong Kong airlines cancel at least 12 Taiwan, Japan flights
Oct 22, 1:38 AM phys.org Taiwan issues warnings as Typhoon Champi nears
Oct 21, 7:49 PM japantimes.co.jp Japan and U.S. to conduct drills under extreme conditions as typhoon nears
Oct 21, 4:35 PM washingtonpost.com See Super Typhoon Champi’s giant eye as it swirls across the Pacific
Oct 21, 2:25 PM yahoo.com Super Typhoon Champi intensifies into one of the year's most powerful storms
Oct 21, 9:35 AM scientificamerican.com Super Typhoon Champi sets the record for strongest storm of 2026
Oct 21, 6:31 AM watchers.news Super Typhoon Champi becomes the strongest tropical cyclone of 2026, Signal No. 2 remains over Batanes, Philippines
Oct 21, 1:06 AM japantimes.co.jp Japan braces for 30th named storm this year as Typhoon Champi heads for Okinawa
Oct 21, 1:00 AM scmp.com Strongest storm of the year barrels towards Taiwan and mainland China
Oct 20, 11:17 PM bloomberg.com Super Typhoon Champi on Path to Impact China, Taiwan Within Days
Oct 20, 5:55 PM theweathernetwork.com 296 km/h: Super Typhoon Champi is now the strongest storm on Earth in 2026
Oct 19, 4:24 AM wpbf.com Typhoon Champi strengthens to Category 5 but moves away from land; Trudy weakens
Oct 18, 11:59 AM yaleclimateconnections.org Super Typhoon Champi intensifies to a Cat 5 after battering Guam
Oct 18, 8:45 AM watchers.news Champi briefly reaches super typhoon strength after its closest approach to Guam causes widespread outages
Oct 17, 9:47 PM bostonglobe.com Super Typhoon Champi passes near Guam, bringing ‘extremely dangerous’ winds
Oct 17, 10:36 AM 10news.com Guam braces for Category 4 Typhoon Champi as eyewall approaches
Oct 17, 7:37 AM abcnews.com Typhoon Champi becomes a dangerous Category 4 storm as it approaches Guam
Oct 16, 11:00 AM 10news.com Guam faces third powerful typhoon in months as Champi approaches
Oct 15, 4:30 PM washingtonpost.com A brewing Pacific storm could become one of the planet’s strongest this year
Oct 15, 1:01 PM watchers.news Typhoon and Flood watches cover Mariana Islands as Tropical Storm Champi approaches