Super Typhoon Champi Barely Missed Guam
SUPER TYPHOON CHAMPI MISSED GUAM BY ONLY 10 MILES! by Bill Kochman 10-18-2026 Dear online friends, my phone will be dying within minutes, but I wanted to get this message out to you while I still can. Most of you probably are not even aware of it, but the eye of Super Typhoon Champi, with Maximum Sustained Winds of 150 mph, passed just 10 miles south of the southern tip of our island of Guam in the Mariana Islands almost twelve hours ago around 4:30 AM. Of course, my power is now out, and as I just said, my phone will be dead soon. It is hard to say how long the power will remain out. Going by previous typhoons, it could be hours, days or weeks. Days is the most likely scenario. What is interesting is that Super Typhoon Champi is now the third Category 5 storm system to pass very close to us this current year. Champi came closer than both Typhoon Sinlaku and Typhoon Bavi. An El NiƱo occurring this year in the Pacfic Ocean is not helping, because the phenomenon ...