Typhoon Champi is moving north, away from Taiwan’s northeast coast and toward eastern China and southern Japan, as of Saturday, October 24, 2026.
Champi was briefly a super typhoon over the Pacific, with reported maximum sustained winds near 300 km/h (186 mph). It weakened as it looped off Taiwan’s Yilan County, and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center put its winds at about 120 km/h (75 mph) on Saturday. In Taiwan, the storm has left one person dead and more than 500 injured, forced more than 5,000 people from their homes, and left about 56,000 households without power. Yilan has recorded 65 cm (25.6 inches) of rain since Thursday. Chinese authorities have warned of heavy to torrential rain in Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang; some train services are suspended and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in Shanghai. Dozens of flights have been canceled, including in Okinawa, Japan, where two people were injured. The busy Pacific storm season is being intensified by El Niño, which is expected to peak in December.
Source: Phys.org (AFP), Typhoon Champi knocks out power to thousands in Taiwan
Image: Typhoon Champi on October 20, 2026, MODIS imagery from NOAA’s Aqua satellite, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.