The inner eyewall of Super Typhoon Sinlaku came ashore on a chain of remote U.S. island territories in the Western Pacific, which includes Guam, on Tuesday.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline A ‘super typhoon’ just devastated the Mariana Islands — months before peak storm season on Apr 16, 2026.

A super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean flipped over cars and ripped away tin roofs on the remote Northern Mariana Islands. So far, there have been no reports of deaths.

It rapidly intensified to Category 5 status last weekend. Now it's slamming the U.S. Northern Marianas and Guam with intense winds, surge and rainfall flooding. Here's the latest on this storm.

But there were no early reports of casualties from the storm, which was named Sinlaku and was moving northwest of the region.