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South China Morning Post
04-07-2025
- Climate
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong to issue No 1 typhoon signal at 12.20pm as tropical depression intensifies
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. Advertisement Hong Kong's weather forecaster will issue the No 1 typhoon warning signal at 12.20pm on Friday as a low pressure over the northeastern part of the South China Sea intensifies into a tropical depression. The Hong Kong Observatory said the tropical depression was expected to enter within 800km of the city, adding that the signal would remain in effect throughout the day. 'It will be slow-moving and maintain a distance of more than 400km from Hong Kong for the rest of the day,' it said. According to the forecaster, the circulation of the tropical depression will be relatively small and is likely to linger over the northeastern part of the South China Sea during the weekend, before turning northwards in the general direction of the vicinity of the Taiwan Strait to the coast of eastern Guangdong. Advertisement It urged the public to avoid water sports and stay away from the shoreline over the weekend in the wake of swells.
Sky News
26-06-2025
- Climate
- Sky News
Six killed in China floods as tropical storm threatens further devastation
At least six people have died after floods overwhelmed China's Guizhou province. The flooding has spread to other southwestern parts of the country, submerging towns and villages, ahead of a tropical depression. Parts of neighbouring Guangxi province are half-submerged, with the township of Meilin worst hit, state media reported on Thursday. Floodwaters peaked at more than 4 metres (13ft) above what was considered safe. Rongjiang and Congjiang in Guizhou province have already seen flooding, but now the wider region is on alert for potential road collapses, landslides and hydro-dam overflows. On Tuesday, at least six people died when Rongjiang - a city of around 300,000 residents where three rivers meet - was hit by a flood on a scale that Chinese meteorologists said could only happen once in 50 years. At one point, the flow rate in the River Liu was more than 80 times the average. Displaced residents were forced to stay at local hotels, which were also hosting rescue personnel and reconstruction workers, according to Reuters. As deluge-hit areas began to remove silt left behind by the flooding and restore power, water and phone lines - a tropical depression was expected to strike Guangxi on Thursday night. The storm risks a new round of flooding. The tropical depression made landfall on China's island province of Hainan early on Thursday, and later again in Guangdong on the mainland. It brought further rain to a region still suffering after Typhoon Wutip two weeks ago. Extreme storms and severe flooding, which meteorologists link to climate change, increasingly pose major challenges for Chinese officials. The storms threaten to overwhelm ageing flood defences, displace millions of people and cause billions of dollars in economic losses. " Climate change is making extreme weather more frequent and unpredictable," said Chen Xiaoguang, a professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, in Sichuan province.
Associated Press
17-06-2025
- Climate
- Associated Press
A hurricane watch is in effect for southern Mexico as a depression in the Pacific gains strength
MIAMI (AP) — A hurricane watch was in effect Tuesday for southern Mexico as a tropical depression in the eastern Pacific gained strength. The depression was likely to become a tropical storm later Tuesday and a hurricane Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (56 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 12 mph (19 kph), forecasters said. The depression would be named Erick when its winds reach tropical storm strength of 39 mph (63 kph). It was centered about 495 miles (800 kilometers) southeast of Punta Maldonado in Mexico's Guerrero state and was forecast to approach the coast by late Wednesday. A hurricane watch was posted for a stretch of the Pacific coast from Bahia De Huatulco, which is in Oaxaca state, to Punta Maldonado. A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions, with winds exceeding 74 mph (119 kph), are possible in the area within two days. A tropical storm watch was in effect further south from Salina Cruz to Bahia De Huatulco. Heavy rainfall was forecast for parts of Oaxaca and Guerrero with lighter amounts in Chiapas, Tabasco and Veracruz states as well as parts of El Salvador and Guatemala.
South China Morning Post
11-06-2025
- Climate
- South China Morning Post
T1 typhoon signal to remain in force as tropical depression brings rain to Hong Kong
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. Advertisement The No 1 typhoon warning signal issued in the early hours of Wednesday will remain in effect throughout the day, the Hong Kong Observatory has said, as showers hit the city. The weather forecaster issued the standby signal at 12.40am and said it would assess whether to raise it to No 3 in the next two days. It added that the tropical depression was expected to maintain a distance of about 700km from the city, noting the No 1 signal would remain in force 'for most of the time' on Wednesday. 'The tropical depression is expected to intensify gradually and move in the general direction of Hainan Island in the next couple of days,' the Observatory said. 'It will then move towards the vicinity of the coast of western Guangdong. Advertisement 'With the tropical cyclone edging closer to the coastal areas, it will be windy with occasional heavy squally showers in the latter part of this week.'
