Haiyan, which is the Chinese word for a petrel seabird, is referred to as "Yolanda" in the Philippines, Masters said. It is the 28th named storm of the 2013 western Pacific typhoon season.

But when compared to weather system that landed on the Philippines yesterday, I might as well have been grumping about a sunny day. Because Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda that just hit the Phillipines ...

With 25 million people in its path, Super Typhoon Haiyan – one of the ... Category 5 strength Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda, appeared to retain much of its terrifying force as ...

With wind speeds exceeding 190 miles an hour (305 kilometers an hour), super typhoon Haiyan—known as Yolanda in the Philippines—is the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.

Update 12:19 p.m. EST: The first death toll figures of super typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan are in ... communications and electricity for much of the Philippines, meaning there's no way to tell yet ...

The deadliest to strike the Philippines in recent years was typhoon Yolanda, which left over 6,300 people dead in November 2013. With winds of 315kmh, it was also the world’s strongest tropical ...

Fourteen months after the deadliest storm in Philippine history, Pope Francis stood on a rain-swept stage to deliver a message ...

Concepcion is a low-income fishing town in the central Philippines’ Iloilo province where Super Typhoon Haiyan, locally known as Yolanda, made its fifth landfall nearly a decade ago, destroying ...

Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) took the lives of more ... The disaster caused by Yolanda put Tacloban and the Philippines on the global spotlight and intensified the clamor for better disaster ...

The Philippines' weather agency has dismissed a fabricated advisory shared in social media posts that warned a "super typhoon" as strong as Haiyan -- the country's deadliest on record -- had ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Are you ready for ... causes grave impact on the calamity victims. This includes typhoon names like ...