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The 2024 Pacific typhoon season was the fifth-latest starting Pacific typhoon season on record, yet featured average activity, ending the streak of below average typhoon seasons that started in 2020. It was also the deadliest season since 2013 , and became the fourth-costliest Pacific typhoon season on record, mostly due to Typhoon Yagi .
Saola remained as a powerful super typhoon while approaching Hong Kong and China. Prior to the arrival of the typhoon, Hong Kong Observatory issued Hurricane Signal No. 10 at 20:15 HKT, September 1, the first time in 5 years since Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong) in 2018. [156] It passed south of Macau and Hong Kong, battering gusty winds and heavy rains.
During the season, as of December 27, 39 systems so far were designated as tropical depressions by either the JMA, PAGASA, JTWC, or other National Meteorological and Hydrological Services such as the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO).
Although Hong Kong’s typhoon season runs from May to November, the peak period is July to September. Experts warn that climate change could lead to more frequent and severe typhoons. Due to the ...
The strongest typhoon Hong Kong has seen in five years ripped through the city and other parts of southern China, knocking down trees and scaffolding and causing hundreds of flights to be canceled.
The weather will deteriorate rapidly as the typhoon makes landfall, Hong Kong weather officials said, with chances of storm surges of about 3 metres (10 feet) higher than the normal tide and ...
Typhoon Haikui, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Hanna, was the first major storm to hit Taiwan since Megi in 2016 and the first typhoon to do so since Nesat in 2017. It also caused serious rainfall in Hong Kong, making it the wettest tropical cyclone to affect the region.
China issued its highest typhoon warning on Thursday as Super Typhoon Saola, packing winds of more than 200 kph (125 mph), headed towards the southeastern coastline, threatening Hong Kong and ...