Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall Monday over a tiny US territorial island in the western Pacific, bringing powerful winds and torrential rain to the Northern Mariana Islands of Guam, Tinian and Saipan, the US National Weather Service said.

Guam and Northern Marianas brace for Super Typhoon Bavi as forecasts warn of category-five strength winds, dangerous storm surge and widespread damage.

Residents of Guam and the Northern Marianas boarded up windows and stocked up as a monster weather system upgraded on Saturday to a "super typhoon" -- the equivalent of a…