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Typhoon Yagi made landfall near Wenchang, Hainan, China, at 4:20 p.m. Friday, local time, as a Category 4 hurricane equivalent on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (130-156 mph) and is ...
When it hit Haikou, in northern Hainan, gusts as strong as 150 kilometers per hour (93 miles per hour) were recorded. The approaching typhoon had already brought cities across Hainan (population ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Asia's strongest storm this year, Super Typhoon Yagi, made landfall along the coast of China's Hainan province on Friday, bringing gales and heavy rain which shut schools for ...
Super Typhoon Yagi, one of this year’s most powerful storms, is set to slam into the Chinese holiday island of Hainan later on Friday, after its outer bands lashed Hong Kong and parts of ...
On September 5, the JTWC upgraded the system to super typhoon status with estimated 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph)—making it a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon, [20] only the fourth such storm in the South China Sea, after Pamela in 1954, Rammasun in 2014 and Rai in 2021—noting the sharply defined eye with a ...
Prior to its landfall, The China Meteorological Administration, issued typhoon and rain warnings along Hainan and Guangdong. [25] A Level 3 out of 4 emergency response alert was issued in Guangxi, as well as a yellow typhoon alert. [26] About 26,000 visitors on Weizhou Island were evacuated prior to the storm through the use of ferries.
People have been moved to shelters and nearly 2,000 boats recalled to port as the remnants of Typhoon Koinu slammed into southern China on Monday after leaving one dead and over 300 injured in Taiwan.
Typhoon Rammasun (2014) – a category-5 typhoon that caused widespread destruction over Hainan. Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) – another large tropical cyclone that also took a similar track in September 2014. Tropical Storm Son-Tinh (2018) – took a similar track and affected the Philippines, South China and Vietnam in July 2018.