Screenshot from China Observer.
Severe Weather Europe β The statistical peak of the tropical storm season in the Pacific Northwest has arrived as the active 2023 season continues with three impressive tropical storms in progress in the region at once. Intense former Super Typhoon Saola is directly threatening Hong Kong overnight. At the same time, Typhoon Haikui continues to intensify and is taking aim at Taiwan, and Tropical Storm Kirogi builds further east near the Japanese Ogasawara or Bonin Islands.
Typhoon Saola threatens to impact Hong Kong as one of the cityβs worst weather events in years. In anticipation of significant impacts, Hong Kong businesses and financial services are closed, and authorities were forced to suspend all school classes, reduce public transport services, and cancel 460 flights in and out of the city on Friday. Meanwhile, in Southern Guangdong Province, 85,000 fishing boats have returned to their harbors, and almost half a million people have been evacuated.
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