Sandbags placed adjacent the waterfront successful a residential country during a No. 8 tempest awesome raised for Super Typhoon Saola successful Hong Kong, China, connected Sept. 1, 2023.
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Typhoon Wipha caused large formation disruptions Sunday in Hong Kong and astatine immoderate adjacent airports in China as it moved westbound on the confederate coast.
Airports successful Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Macao canceled oregon postponed each their daytime flights, their websites showed. Some high-speed bid work successful the country was suspended.
The Hong Kong Observatory issued a hurricane awesome No. 10, its highest warning. The oculus of the tempest was passing conscionable southbound of the metropolis astir midday with maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers (87 miles) per hour, the Observatory said.
The authorities said implicit 200 radical had headed to nationalist shelters and that it had received dozens of reports of fallen trees. Hong Kong Disneyland and different amusement parks were closed.
The storm, which reached typhoon spot overnight, was headed toward Macao and the neighboring Chinese metropolis of Zhuhai. It was forecast to marque landfall precocious Sunday and proceed moving west, reaching Vietnam aboriginal this week.
Wipha, which is simply a Thai name, passed implicit the Philippines astatine tropical tempest spot and drenched parts of Taiwan on Saturday. Names for typhoons successful the occidental Pacific are chosen by the countries successful the region.
In the Philippines, the tempest intensified seasonal monsoon rains, leaving astatine slightest 1 villager dormant successful floodwaters successful bluish Cagayan province.
More than 370,000 radical were affected by days of stormy weather, including 43,000 who fled to government-run exigency shelters oregon homes of relatives owed to flooding, landslides and fierce wind. More than 400 houses were damaged successful the onslaught, officials said.
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