Haiyan seen from space

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/07/super_typhoon_haiyan_pictures_from_satellites.html

That is a combination of images from Japanese and European weather satellites, also on Nov. 7, 2013, at 13:00 UTC, around local midnight.




Preliminary reports:

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/10/21389125-typhoon-haiyan-us-forces-heading-to-storm-devastated-philippine-islands?lite

Tacloban, a town of more than 220,000 people, was almost completely submerged by waves of up to 40 feet in height.