“Super Typhoon” No. 9 Maximum instantaneous wind speed 80 meters Check information

As of 6 p.m., Typhoon No. 9, a large and ferocious typhoon, had a central pressure of 910 hectopascals, a maximum wind speed of 55 m near the center, and a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 80 m, and was moving westward near the Mariana Islands, far south of Japan. The US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) analyzes the storm as a ``super typhoon.''