At 8 a.m., Mangkhut was 243 miles north of Manila, heading west at 18 mph, still packing 132-mph sustained winds and 161-mph gusts as it roars back offshore.
At 8 p.m., Mangkhut was 282 miles northeast of Manila, headed west-northwest at 18 mph.
The world’s most powerful storm of this year ripped into Cagayan province in the northern Philippines with winds of up to 269 kilometers.
The storm known locally as Ompong.