Hong Kong authorities have developed an artificial intelligence-driven flood forecasting and alert system capable of three-dimensional simulations, aimed at enabling more timely pre-emptive measures and emergency responses to flooding. The technology is the latest addition to the existing territory-wide flood risk visualisation system, which was deployed after Super Typhoon Ragasa struck the city last year….
Hong Kong will experience between four and seven typhoons from June to October this year, according to the city’s forecaster – a figure that is fewer than half of last year’s record-breaking 14 tropical typhoons. The Hong Kong Observatory said on Monday the city would be hotter than average this year under the influence of…
Hong Kong and mainland Chinese scholars have developed a pioneering AI model that uses satellite data to forecast heavy rainstorms up to four hours before they strike, much earlier than current predictions allow. The model represented a “major advancement in atmospheric monitoring and severe weather early warnings, enabling faster and more accurate forecasts and strengthening…
Old videos have circulated in social media posts falsely linking them to Super Typhoon Ragasa after it swept across southern China in September. The latest includes clips of an elevator shaft collapsing and people getting knocked over by violent winds. They were in fact taken at least a year ago. “Compilation of Ragasa sweeping through,…
HONG KONG — Tropical Storm Matmo edged closer to the Philippines on Thursday and was expected to intensify into a typhoon that could threaten southern China this weekend, just about a week after the region was battered by Ragasa, one of the strongest storms to hit Asia in years. Matmo, which had maximum sustained winds…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong is bracing for its fourth storm in five weeks, with one forecast to move close to the city this weekend, hot on the heels of Super Typhoon Ragasa, which brought life to…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong is bracing for its fourth storm in five weeks, with a typhoon forecast to move close to the city this weekend, hot on the heels of Super Typhoon Ragasa which brought life…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. Hong Kong’s Observatory has warned of windy weather and swells for the rest of the weekend under the effects of a typhoon…
Hong Kong authorities have called on residents not to swim at Deep Water Bay Beach and Repulse Bay Beach after a sewage pipe split in two during Super Typhoon Ragasa. The Drainage Services Department said on Thursday that it had immediately stopped using the 450mm-diameter sewage main at the Mills and Chung Path near Deep…
Super Typhoon Ragasa may have resulted in billions of Hong Kong dollars in economic losses to the city, but its overall impact may have been less severe than past storms, with more people working from home and the stock market trading despite the adverse weather, experts have said. But they warned on Thursday that as…