Tag: Cyclones

Typhoon Saola Threatens China With Category 4 Winds

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Typhoon Saola, a powerful tropical cyclone packing the force of a Category 4 hurricane, was moving northwest through the South China Sea on Thursday toward Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. Saola was about 229 miles east-southeast of Hong Kong on Thursday afternoon, the Chinese territory’s meteorological agency said in a warning, adding that it anticipated violent winds and heavy showers there starting on Friday. Hong Kong issued a wind signal on Thursday afternoon that indicated winds of 25 to 38 miles per hour were in the forecast. The Chinese…

Typhoon Saola Nears Taiwan, China and Hong Kong

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Typhoon Saola, a powerful tropical cyclone with wind speeds approaching those of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes, was passing close to Taiwan on Wednesday. It was also edging northward toward Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. Saola was about 111 miles southwest of Taiwan on Wednesday morning and producing some rain there, according to the island’s Central Weather Bureau. It was passing through a body of water, the Luzon Strait, that separates Taiwan from the Philippines. The storm has already prompted evacuations in the Philippines and some school closures and travel…

Typhoon Khanun Threatens Japan and China on Heels of Doksuri

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A powerful tropical cyclone was approaching islands in southern Japan on Tuesday, days after another one slammed into mainland China and the Philippines and left dozens of people dead or injured across the region. The new storm, Typhoon Khanun, was less than 200 miles southeast of a major United States military base in southern Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture on Tuesday, according to the United States military’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii. Khanun was producing maximum sustained winds of 138 miles per hour, making it the equivalent of a Category 4…

Typhoon Doksuri Grazes the Philippines on Its Way to China

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Typhoon Doksuri, a tropical cyclone moving through the Pacific Ocean, grazed the northern Philippines on Wednesday morning and was expected to pass near Taiwan before making landfall in China later this week. As of early Wednesday morning local time, the storm was over Fuga Island in the Philippines’ Cagayan Province, the national meteorological service said in a bulletin. The agency had warned that flooding and rain-induced landslides were possible over the next three days, and urged people in some low-lying areas to evacuate. It was not immediately clear if the…

Typhoon Doksuri Heads for Philippines, Taiwan and Southern China

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Typhoon Doksuri, a tropical cyclone moving through the Pacific Ocean with wind speeds equivalent to that of a Category 4 hurricane, was forecast to potentially hit the northern Philippines on Tuesday before passing near Taiwan and making landfall in China later this week. As of late Tuesday morning, the storm was about 167 miles east of Tuguegarao City, near the east coast of Luzon, the country’s largest and most populous island, the Philippine national meteorological service said in a bulletin. The agency warned that flooding and rain-induced landslides were possible…