Super typhoon Usagi

[Guest William Grimsley]

It has been a very wet day in E Taiwan. Tomiyac of ChengKung, Taitung, Taiwan. Rainfall Today: 85.6 mm.

[Methuselah]

Bump.

[crikey]

Typhoon Usagi Makes landfall nearly 200km East of Hong Kong

 

 

http://www.westernpacificweather.com/2013/09/22/typhoon-usagi-makes-landfall-nearly-200km-east-of-hong-kong/

[Somerset Squall]

The EWRC never really completed with Usagi, probably due to land interaction with Taiwan, and the associated disruption to the typhoon's inflow, which has been also evident with some interaction with Luzon. This however, just means that Usagi has continued to grow larger. Winds, though reduced, are still at a dangerous 95kts sustained according to JTWC, and this monster is bearing down on Hong Kong. One crumb of comfort is that the latest track has Usagi passing just north of Hong Kong, which, as Cornishbrooksy's post describes, is a better scenario for Hong Kong as it lessens the storm surge. Still a very dangerous storm nonetheless, which will be landfalling in an hour or so.

 

This image shows Usagi nearing landfall, and the large TS Pabuk well to the east:

 

Edited September 22, 2013 by Somerset Squall

[Guest William Grimsley]

It looks like Typhoon Usagi made landfall on the coast of Hong Kong at 10:32 local time. Braemar Hill, Hong Kong, SAR. Rainfall Today: 21.1 mm High Wind Gust Today: 38 mph 19:31 High Wind Speed Today: 19 mph 19:31.

[cornishbrooksy]

Landfall was around 180km east of here, but according to HKO it still maintains Severe Typhoon intensity. 

Im going out for a scout around as its nearing its close approach to HK around 110km to the NE. 

 

Pressures been dropping nicely through the day and seeing current pressures around 985mPa.

[Guest William Grimsley]

Landfall was around 180km east of here, but according to HKO it still maintains Severe Typhoon intensity. 

Im going out for a scout around as its nearing its close approach to HK around 110km to the NE. 

 

Pressures been dropping nicely through the day and seeing current pressures around 985mPa.

That sounds like a Super Typhoon. Have fun. But, keep safe.

[Coast]

Typhoon Usagi kills at least 25 people in China

 

 

Typhoon Usagi has killed at least 25 people in Guangdong province of south China, the government has said.

 

Winds of up to 180 km/h (110 mph) were recorded in some areas, toppling trees and blowing cars off roads. Its victims drowned or were hit by debris. The storm has affected 3.5 million people on the Chinese mainland. Trains from Guangzhou to Beijing have been suspended and hundreds of flights from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong have been cancelled. However Hong Kong has escaped the worst of the storm.

 

Weather officials say that the ferocity of the storm has abated as it progressed into southern China, but financial markets in Hong Kong were closed for part of Monday morning. More than 80,000 people were moved to safety in Fujian province and the authorities have deployed at least 50,000 relief workers, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Power supplies in many parts of the province and in Guangdong have been cut off. "It is the strongest typhoon I have ever encountered," Xinhua quoted Luo Hailing, a petrol station attendant in Shanwei - in the eastern part of Guangdong province - as saying. "[it was] so terrible, lucky we made preparations."

 

 

Hong Kong's port - one of the world's busiest - shut down as the densely populated territory braced itself for the storm - the most powerful of this year. Although officials say that Hong Kong escaped the worst ravages of the weather, the South China Morning Post said that Usagi still caused disruption and disarray, bringing flooding to some areas. Just after 18:00 BST on Sunday the Post reported that Usagi's designation had been reduced from Severe Typhoon to Typhoon and it was moving away from Hong Kong.

 

 

Usagi - which means rabbit in Japanese - had produced winds of 165 km/h (103 mph) as it closed in on China's densely populated Pearl River Delta. China's National Meteorological Centre warned that Usagi would bring gales and downpours to parts of the southern coast. The storm killed two people on Friday as it crossed the Luzon Strait between Taiwan and the Philippines. Parts of the Philippines were badly hit by floods caused by the typhoon on Monday.

 

"The flood water is chest-deep in many areas," Kay Khonghun, mayor of Subic, a town northwest of Philippine capital Manila, told AFP news agency. "The rain is pounding and the water keeps on rising," he said. Typhoons are common during the summer in parts of East Asia, where the warm moist air and low pressure conditions enable tropical cyclones to form.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24193201

[Coast]

Typhoon USAGI: Probability of Cat 1 or above winds to 36 hours lead

 

[Coast]

Typhoon Usagi sweeps Asia leaving 33 dead

 

A POWERFUL typhoon that slammed into southern China with winds strong enough to blow cars off the road is continuing to cause fatalities, with the death count now standing at at least 33. Typhoon Usagi, which was the season’s strongest storm at its peak, forced hundreds of flight cancellations and shut down shipping and train lines before weakening to a tropical depression over the southern Chinese province of Guangdong yesterday.

 

Official sources in China said 25 deaths occurred in Guangdong, where the typhoon made landfall late on Sunday near Shanwei with record sustained winds for the city of 109mph. On Saturday the storm had been a super typhoon when it passed between Taiwan and the Philippines, sparing both of them the brunt of the winds.

 

However, Philippine officials said eight people were dead from drowning and landslides, and Taiwan authorities reported nine people hurt by falling trees. The storm disrupted travel plans just as many passengers were returning home after an extended weekend for the Chinese mid-autumn festival. More than 250 incoming and outgoing flights were cancelled in Hong Kong, and an additional 200 were delayed, Airport Authority Hong Kong said. Intercity trains including the high-speed rail to Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong were suspended, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 

Beijing-based Air China cancelled 148 flights to and from Hong Kong, Macau and five nearby mainland cities. China Southern Airlines, based in Guangzhou, cancelled all flights to and from Hong Kong and three mainland airports. At least 13 of the 25 victims in China were killed in worst-hit Shanwei city, where winds blew cars off the road near a petrol station and houses were toppled, Xinhua said. One county’s electricity and water supply were cut off. In Hong Kong, dozens of trees were reported blown down and 17 people were given medical treatment, with eight of them admitted to hospital, according to the Hong Kong government’s information services department.

 

China’s National Meterological Centre said the typhoon would continue to weaken as it moved north-west and brought heavy rains later Monday and overnight to five southern provinces. In the Philippines, parts of the capital remained submerged yesterday and classes at school and colleges were cancelled. The landslide deaths occurred in two villages in Zambales province west of Manila, Subic town mayor Jeffrey Khonghun said. Two drowning deaths were reported previously.

 

 

The typhoon landed near the city of Shanwei in the Chinese province of Guangdong, about 140 kilometres (87 miles) northeast of Hong Kong, and was moving west-northwest at 
14 mph, the Hong Kong Observatory said. Ferry services between Hong Kong and nearby Macau and outlying islands were suspended as the observatory reported strong winds and warned that a storm surge and heavy rains could cause flooding in low-lying areas. Police in Shanwei ordered more than 8,000 fishing boats to return to port and more than 1,200 residents were taken to temporary shelters, Xinhua news agency reported.

 

http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/typhoon-usagi-sweeps-asia-leaving-33-dead-1-3107729