Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall Monday over a tiny U.S. territorial island in the western Pacific near Guam, bringing powerful winds and torrential rain to the Northern Mariana Islands as residents were urged to stay indoors.
The storm started passing through the island of Rota Monday morning local time, according to the National Weather Service. The typhoon threatened other parts of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory east of the Philippines, as well as Guam. The area was still recovering from another destructive cyclone earlier this year.
