As we move deeper into the most active months of the long 2026 Western Pacific typhoon season, the fourth typhoon of the year is brewing just west of Guam. So far this year, there have been seven tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific, with three making landfall and causing more than a dozen fatalities. One of those storms, Super Typhoon Sinlaku, made landfall in the Northern Mariana Islands as a powerful Category 4-equivalent typhoon. In fact, Typhoon Sinlaku remains the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall anywhere in the world so far in 2026.