Typhoon Kalmaegi intensified as it made landfall in the central Philippines on Tuesday (November 4, 2025), after slamming ashore overnight from the Pacific, leaving at least one person dead, causing flooding and power outages, and displacing tens of thousands of people, officials said.

The state weather bureau warning of “life-threatening” conditions as it placed large parts of the Visayas region under the second-highest storm warning.

Typhoon Kalmaegi was blowing over the city of Sagay in central Negros Occidental province mid-morning with sustained winds of up to 150 kmph and gusts up to 185 kmph after making landfall around midnight in the town of Silago town in the eastern province of Southern Leyte.

Kalmaegi, the 20th tropical cyclone to batter the Philippines this year, was moving

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