July 2015 – HK braces as typhoon approaches

Meanwhile, meteorologists said that Chan-hom and Tropical Storm Linfa, which is off southwestern Taiwan, are an example of the “Fujiwara effect”.

Typhoon Chan-Hom, which is moving much faster, could land in Fujian and neighboring Zhejiang Province late Friday as a strong or super typhoon, according to the NMC. There is, however, a few uncertainty about the path of Typhoon Chan-Hom, although it is currently expected that it will make landfall as early as Friday evening along the shoreline near Shanghai.

It was named on June 30 and, despite never becoming anything more than a tropical storm, blew a gale over the Solomon Islands and dumped 176mm of rain on Honiara, the capital. That would place its top sustained winds between 74 miles (120 kilometers) per hour and 95 miles per hour.

In the eastern Pacific, another storm is taking shape about 1,300 miles east-southeast of Hawaii’s Big Island. The storm has already made one landfall in its lifetime in the mountainous terrain of Luzon in the Philippines. When it passed over Typhoon Nangka on July 7 from 17:54 to 19:26 UTC (1:54 to 3:26 p.m. EDT), it gathered data on sustained winds. It will bring heavy rain or torrential rain in Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan.

Despite the approach of both Linfa and Chan-Hom, no storm warnings have been issued by the China Meteorological Administration as of Tuesday morning. As this storm moves to the west-northwest the next several days it could possibly grow to category 5 storm by Thursday. With warmer waters and calmer weather conditions in front of it, intensity of the storm will more than likely grow. Still a powerful storm, to be certain.

Residents walk along the breakwater as high waves brought by typhoon Linfa crash along Manila Bay at a slum area in Baseco, Tondo in Manila.

Typhoon Linfa is the 10th typhoon to hit the country this year.

The province had issued a yellow alert for Linfa on Wednesday, closing kindergartens, elementary and middle schools in 15 counties.