After Super Typhoon Champi, Typhoon In-fa threatens Mariana Islands
Super Typhoon Champi made a close pass to Guam last week. Now, a second typhoon is on the way.
Typhoon Champi brought damaging winds to Taiwan, tearing down a gas station sign in Yilan, knocking over trees in Taipei and overturning a security booth in Keelung.
Super Typhoon In-fa is barreling across the western Pacific Ocean and moving toward the Mariana Islands, which were just impacted by Super Typhoon Champi last week.
Where is Typhoon In-fa tracking now?
AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jason Nicholls says that Typhoon In-fa is now the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane (110 mph/178 km/h) on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale, and is southwest of Wake Island. In-fa is slowly moving west-northwest.
In-fa will remain nearly stationary through Tuesday, local time, then will track west to west-northwest from Wednesday through Friday, local time. The storm can slow and turn northward this weekend. This track will bring In-fa near or over the Northern Mariana Islands with flooding rains and damaging winds Friday, local time. The storm may impact the Izu and Iwo islands next week.
Champi became the strongest storm this year after damaging Guam
Typhoon Champi on Oct. 21, 2026.
Last Wednesday, Champi tied Typhoon Sinlaku for the highest winds, 185-mph, 1-minute sustained winds, measured in any tropical storm on Earth this year.
On Friday and Saturday, Typhoon Champi slammed into Taiwan. One person was killed by waves, and over 600 were injured, Focus Taiwan reported. More than 340,000 customers lost power, and over 9,000 damage reports were issued, including over 3,000 infrastructure damage reports. Over 2 feet of rain fell in Yilan County.
A temporary structure built for a traditional Taoist religious ceremony lies collapsed due to strong winds from Typhoon Champi in Keelung on October 24, 2026. Champi dumped heavy rain, toppled trees and knocked out power to thousands of households as it swept past Taiwan's northeast on the way to China and Japan. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng / AFP via Getty Images)
Prior to that, Champi passed within 12 miles of Guam's southern tip on Oct. 18. While the eye's core of extreme winds remained mostly offshore, it was close enough to cause damage to homes and knock down trees on the island.
Guam is the largest island in the chain, with 150,000 residents, but the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) spans 14 islands. All north of Guam, they total a population of around 50,000, most of whom live on Saipan, Tinian and Rota.
In-fa will be the fourth typhoon to impact the CNMI in the last six months. Super Typhoon Sinlaku hit Saipan on April 14, followed by Super Typhoon Bavi on July 6, which made landfall on Rota, then Super Typhoon Champi on Oct. 18.
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