Category 4 Typhoon Sinlaku powers through the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands

Satellite image of Typhoon Sinlaku over Tinian and Saipan Islands.

Sinlaku is the 10th Category 4 or 5 tropical cyclone to hit a U.S. state or territory in the past 10 years — as many Cat 4 and Cat 5 landfalls as the U.S. suffered in the prior 57 years.

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