The New York Times, on Climate, 25 October 2026

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Maps: Tracking Typhoon In-fa

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Tracking Typhoon In-fa By The New York Times Updated Oct. 25, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. E.T. Share full article In-fa strengthened to a typhoon in the North Pacific Ocean late Sunday Chamorro time, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Forecast wind speeds and direction The New York Times Where will it rain? Flash flooding can occur well inland and away from the storm’s center. Even weaker storms can produce excessive rainfall that can flood low-lying areas. 1-day forecast precipitation 1 2 3 5 10+ inches The New York Times What does the storm look like from above?

Satellite imagery can help determine the strength, size and cohesion of a storm. The stronger a storm becomes, the more likely an eye will form in the center. When the eye looks symmetrical, that often means the storm is not encountering anything to weaken it. The New York Times Typhoon season is year-round; however, most typhoons form from early July through mid-December. Most typhoons scrape or strike places like the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan; they can also hit the Korean Peninsula, China and Vietnam, bringing damaging winds and storm surges.

Sources and notes Tracking map Tracking data is from the National Hurricane Center. The map shows probabilities of at least 5 percent. The forecast is for up to five days, with that time span starting up to three hours before the reported time that the storm reaches its latest location.

Wind speed probability data is not available north of 60.25 degrees north latitude. Intensity chart Best track and forecast path are from the National Hurricane Center. Forecast models are from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Wind arrivals table Arrival times are generated from a New York Times analysis of National Hurricane Center data. Geographic locations use data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Natural Earth. Time zones are based on Google.

The table shows predicted arrival times of sustained, damaging winds of 58 m.p.h. or more for select cities with a chance of such winds reaching them. If damaging winds reach a location, there is no more than a 10 percent chance that they will arrive before the “earliest reasonable” time and a 50 percent chance they will arrive before the “most likely” time. Radar map Radar imagery is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Storm surge map Storm surge data is from the National Hurricane Center. Forecasts only include the United States Gulf and Atlantic coasts, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The actual areas that could become flooded may differ from the areas shown on this map. This map accounts for tides, but not waves and not flooding caused by rainfall. The map also includes intertidal areas, which routinely flood during typical high tides. Rip currents map Rip current data is from the National Hurricane Center.

Rip current risk shown is not always associated with active tropical cyclones. Satellite map Imagery is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Japanese Meteorological Agency via the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. Precipitation map Data for multi-day forecasts or observed rainfall totals are from the National Weather Service. The 1-day forecast is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Credits By William B. Davis, Madison Dong, Judson Jones, John Keefe, Joey K. Lee and Bea Malsky.

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What we found (1)

The New York Times publishes a tracking page for Typhoon In-fa with forecast maps, rainfall and wind data, and a passage on the damage typhoons cause, including billions of dollars in damage to Guam. The page never tells its reader that warming is making intense tropical cyclones and their heavy rainfall more frequent or more severe. Its data notes are clearly sourced and nothing else in it misleads.

  1. Leaves out the climate link

    Serious

    “Typhoons have also hit U.S. territories, causing billions of dollars in devastating damage to places like Guam, which was battered by Typhoon Sinlaku in April 2026.”

    Why this matters
    The Times describes the damage typhoons cause, with "billions of dollars in devastating damage" and Guam "battered", and in S12 their "damaging winds and storm surges". It never says that warming plays any part.
    The impression it gives
    A reader comes away thinking typhoons and their damage are a fixed feature of the region's weather, unaffected by the climate.
    The context
    Human-caused warming has made intense tropical cyclones and heavy rainfall more frequent or more severe. The page has no word on climate change or warming anywhere, even in its sections on flash flooding and storm surge.

    How we know

    • On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
    • On the recordIt is unequivocal that human influence, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels, has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
    • Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “climate” and “warming”.

    Show it in the article

    Written straight

    Typhoons have also hit U.S. territories, causing billions of dollars in damage to places like Guam, which was battered by Typhoon Sinlaku in April 2026. Climate change is making intense typhoons and the heavy rain they bring more likely.

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