typhoon

Schools and businesses closed while hundreds of flights were canceled in Hong Kong and other parts of southern China on Friday as Typhoon Saola swept close to the coast, bringing strong winds and heavy rain in what could be the region’s strongest storm in five years. It had been a super...

Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan have been urged to evacuate their homes amid warnings of "unprecedented" risks from an approaching storm. Typhoon Nanmadol is expected to make landfall on Kyushu island on Sunday. Winds could reach 270km/h (168mph) and some areas could experience 500mm...

Super Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, was a catastrophic, powerful and deadly tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines in December 2021. Rai became the first Category 5-equivalent super typhoon to develop in the month of December since Nock-ten in 2016, and the...

Enhanced infrared satellite imagery shows a very compact system with a 11 nautical miles pinhole eye visible. The Western Pacific season activity is significantly increasing lately. Soon after a damaging Typhoon Molave over the Philippines and Vietnam, a new extremely rapid development of a...

13:40 UTC short wave IR image of Super Typhoon Hagibis just east of the Marianas Islands. Note the extremely tight, small eye Latest analysis and weather update indicate Hagibis has reached more than 259 km/h (140 kt) peak sustained winds, an equivalent-CAT5 tropical cyclone. Peak wind gusts...

Typhoon Mangkhut has battered the heavily populated Guangdong region with 100mph winds, after skirting 62 miles from Hong Kong. It smashed windows in the city and tore off parts of buildings and roofs, while hotels and restaurants were hit by flash floods. More than 100 people were reported...

Super Typhoon Maria now ranks among the fastest tropical storm to Category 5 intensification rates on record for a storm in the western Pacific Ocean. This storm has already placed itself in rare meteorological company. Last year, Hurricane Maria devastated parts of the Caribbean and Puerto...

Damrey from the International space station Damrey, the strongest typhoon to make landfall in southern Vietnam in 16 years, has left at least 61 people dead with hundreds of homes destroyed. Damrey made landfall in southern Vietnam, near Nha Trang, with the equivalent strength of a Category...

A man looks out from inside an apartment where some windows have been broken by typhoon Hato in Macau Typhoon Hato has killed at least 12 people after it tipped across southern China on Wednesday, battering Hong Kong skyscrapers, flooding streets and forcing thousands to flee to shelters...

At least twenty people have been killed in eastern China after parts of the country were hit by the heaviest rains in a century brought by a weakening Typhoon Soudelor/ Another five people are missing after the storm caused landslides in the eastern province of Zhejiang and heavy rain in...