Climate change may have led to the record number of super typhoons in the northwest of the Pacific Ocean this year, including three that affected Hong Kong, a meteorologist has said. But the city was unlikely to be hit with any further typhoons in the remainder of the year despite the rare case of four…
Hong Kong Observatory will issue a No 1 signal on Monday morning as Super Typhoon Man-yi edges closer, while warning that the weather is expected to remain windy and temperatures will fall to 18 degrees Celsius (64.4 Fahrenheit) or below later this week. “Tropical Cyclone Man-yi will enter within 800km [497 miles] of Hong Kong…
Tropical cyclone Man-yi has been upgraded to a super typhoon but will weaken as it moves closer to Hong Kong on Monday. The Observatory said on Saturday the super typhoon was about 1,580km (982 miles) southeast of Hong Kong and about 490km east-southeast of Manila. “We expect Man-yi will enter within 800km of Hong Kong…
The Hong Kong Observatory may issue the No 1 standby signal as early as Friday as typhoon Yinxing intensified gradually into a super typhoon on Wednesday. The weather forecaster on Thursday said Yinxing was expected to enter within 800km (497 miles) of Hong Kong between tonight and Friday morning and move westwards across the northern…
(Bloomberg) — Taiwan authorities completed the dramatic helicopter rescue of 19 crew members on a stricken ship, which foundered as Super Typhoon Krathon brings strong winds and heavy rains to the island. Most Read from Bloomberg All those on the Barbados-registered “Blue Lagoon” were rescued, the coast guard said in a statement. Rescuers used helicopters…
Taiwan closed schools and evacuated thousands of people in the south of the island Tuesday ahead of the arrival of Super Typhoon Krathon as the president warned it was likely cause “catastrophic damage”. Krathon, packing sustained winds of 198 kilometres per hour (123 miles per hour) — equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane — and…
Hong Kong grounded to a halt on Thursday as Super Typhoon Yagi edged closer to the city and prompted the first No 8 storm warning of the year, forcing class suspensions, flight cancellations and the scaling back of public transport services to the bare minimum. With maximum sustained wind speeds near its centre reaching 210km/h…