School classes have been suspended, parks closed, train and boat services put on hold and residents told to stay inside as Southern China braces for Super Typhoon Yagi.
Yagi’s maximum sustained winds near the centre reached 68 metres per second, China’s official weather forecaster said on Friday morning.
The typhoon is forecast to land somewhere between Qionghai in Hainan province and Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, some time between Friday afternoon and evening, most likely hitting between Wenchang and Leizhou at a speed of 60-65 metres per second, the forecaster said while calling on the two provinces to shore up defences.
The China Meteorological Administration issued a typhoon red alert, the highest in its four-tier warning system, while also warning of strong wind – potentially reaching as high as 17, the highest level on the Beaufort scale – and heavy rain.
The typhoon is the strongest in a decade, according to the forecaster, only a little weaker than Super Typhoon Rammasun, which wreaked havoc across the Philippines, Southern China and Vietnam in July 2014. Rammasun landed in Hainan at 70 metres per second and remained a super typhoon even as it moved through Guangdong.
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