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Super Typhoon heads to south China
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Super Typhoon Usagi — one of the strongest storms of the year — barrelled toward Hong Kong and China’s mainland yesterday, prompting warnings of fierce winds and torrential rains.
Packing gusts of up to 205 kilometers per hour, the storm is projected to roar between the Philippines and China’s Taiwan before smashing into the southern Chinese coast later in the weekend.
Late yesterday, it was centered 1,120 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong, officials in the southern city said.
“It is the strongest typhoon in the west Pacific region this year,” a weather forecaster in Taiwan said yesterday.
Philippine authorities evacuated some 240 people in the northern agricultural province of Tarlac, while ferries were restricted to their ports, stranding travellers.
Hong Kong officials warned of worsening weather in the city.
“Weather will deteriorate significantly with strengthening winds and rough seas,” the Hong Kong observatory said. Its tropical cyclone track map showed the storm would hit the city after 8pm tomorrow.
The typhoon is expected to be downgraded to “severe” by the time it makes landfall in the city, according to the observatory — still enough to stop metro and ferry services and curtail air travel.
Usagi is set to brush the southern tip of Taiwan this morning, expected to bring fierce winds and torrential rains, possibly leading to landslides.
Taiwan deployed more than 1,600 rescuers in “high risk” areas prone to flooding and landslides while placing 24,000 others on standby.
The island’s weather bureau issued a warning to the residents of Taitung, Kaohsiung and the Pingtung areas to take special precautions, as television news footage showed people surfing on waves whipped up by Usagi.
Authorities in the city of Kaohsiung deflated an 18-meter-tall yellow duck, a day after it arrived in the city, drawing tens of thousands of visitors.
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