Sentence examples for a haiyan from inspiring English sources

Reibl says typhoon Bopha in 2012 had already redefined ideas on how big a typhoon could get, and yet "just a year later, Haiyan made Bopha seem like just a little wind … When Bopha happened we didn't envisage a Haiyan.

He says the "collective impact over a year" of changing seasonality, crop impacts, drought and sea level rise "will vastly exceed the number of people affected by a Haiyan".

The United Nations is working to finish a blueprint for a Haiyan Action Plan reconstruction strategy by Dec. 9.

And Vietnam appeared to have successfully evacuated some 600,000 people before a weakened Haiyan arrived there early Monday.

CDP has set up a Typhoon Haiyan Recovery Fund specifically looking at medium- and long-term recovery and rebuilding in the Philippines.

Melor was plotting a similar path to Haiyan, a category 5 typhoon that struck the central Philippines in 2013.

But never before had its 100m-strong population been witness to such a violent display of nature as Haiyan – a category-5 super typhoon, known locally as Yolanda.

7.46pm GMT We've taken down an image we had posted, which has been widely distributed online, overlaying a satellite image of Haiyan on a map of the United States.

©2013/VERONICA PEDROSA After the Typhoon Haiyan, a boat lays in a village, with the writing 'climate justice'.

Click here to see a gallery of images of devastation from Typhoon Haiyan A flurry of major international relief teams is expected to arrive in the coming days, but they face a challenge navigating their way through the devastated terrain.

By Kent Page After losing everything to Typhoon Haiyan, a boy and his siblings face a daily struggle to survive.