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Super Hurricane Saola It is heading towards China’s southwestern coast, threatening Hong Kong, neighboring China’s Guangdong Province and Macau, where the tropical cyclone alert level is 10, the highest on the scale, according to the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (SMG) in Macau. . There is also a red alert for storms.
The typhoon was about 30 kilometers from Macao at 6:00 pm on Friday in Lisbon, while it was 2:00 am on Saturday in Macae and gradually approaching. Hong Kong and Macau use an alert scale of 1, 3, 8, 9 and 10 to classify these weather events with wind intensity in mind. With Alert No. 9 in Macao, winds of more than 118 km/h are expected, with gusts of more than 180 km/h.
China says it could be one of the five strongest typhoons to hit the densely populated Guangdong region since 1949. According to Lusa, Macau is in an immediate protective state and has recorded one injured person and about 150 people seeking shelter in emergency reception. Reuters says that about 800 thousand people have been evacuated from their homes to safer areas in Hong Kong and Guangdong. In Fujian Province, 161,600 people were evacuated on Friday.
China’s meteorological services predict that Saola You reach the land on the coast between Huidong and Taishan cities. Reuters says that Hong Kong and Macau are located in the middle of this strip of land.
Cyclone Saola Wind speeds can reach more than 200 kilometers per hour, and it is expected to make landfall on Friday night or Saturday morning.
Floods
A. has been issued Tidal alert Red in Macau because Saolabetween 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. in Macau (seven hours more than in mainland Portugal), which means it is expected to be water level Above the pavement, it reaches 1.5 to 2.5 meters, causing flooding, according to the website of the Special Administrative Region Government of the People’s Republic of China.
In Hong Kong, waves are expected to be three meters above normal, Reuters reported.
As a precautionary measure, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which connects the two regions, has been closed, the news agency reported.
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Cathay Pacific, the main airline in the Asian financial hub, said all flights in Hong Kong until 3 a.m. (Lisbon time) on Saturday were also cancelled. Reuters says that more than 300 people were at the airport due to the cancellation of about 460 flights.
Several cities closed shops, schools and financial markets, signs that were also issued in Macao, where the start of the school year, which was scheduled for September 1, was postponed, according to Radio France International. Nearly 85,000 fishing boats operating off the coast of Guangdong have returned to port.
In Guangdong Province, railway services were suspended until 11 a.m. Saturday (Portuguese time), while Shenzhen, a city of more than 17 million people, closed schools and halted and shut down financial markets, trade and other services, with warnings of the possibility. It is exposed to destructive winds until Saturday. Air traffic has also been suspended.
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong has halted outdoor operations and transportation of vulnerable materials, and emergency services workers have been put on alert, Reuters reports.
passage Saola The typhoon led across the far north of the Philippines, forcing the evacuation of 48,000 people.
Chao Sun, a climatologist at the University of California, Irvine, told Reuters the problems caused by typhoons are somewhat serious depending on how long they are on the ground.
To illustrate this, use the example of a tropical storm. rumbia In 2018, which killed 53 people, damaged 32,246 homes in China, and caused an estimated $5,360 million ($4,931 million) in damage: “Although of moderate intensity, it lasted for an exceptionally long duration, totaling 132 hours.” And he spent more than that.” More than three days over the territory of mainland China.
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