Tropical Storm Koinu, heading toward southern China, killed one person in Taiwan, where the island’s strongest winds ever recorded were felt.
As Typhoon Koinu headed west toward China’s Guangdong province, it began to weaken, China’s meteorological administration said, predicting it would turn southwest on Sunday.
The storm was about 370 kilometers from Hong Kong on Friday morning and was moving at about ten kilometers per hour, revealed the Hong Kong Observatory, which plans to raise the tropical storm signal to number 3 at 5:40 p.m. local (10:40). I’m Lisbon).
In Macau, signal 1 has been in effect since the early hours of Thursday.
At 11:00 a.m. local time (4:00 a.m. Lisbon time), the typhoon “was about 400 kilometers east of Macau,” reads the website of the Meteorology and Geophysics Services of the Chinese region.
The tropical storm warning scale is made up of signals 1, 3, 8, 9 and 10, the emission depending on the proximity of the storm and the intensity of the wind.
Koinu, which means “dog” in Japanese, brought the fastest winds ever recorded to Taiwan on Wednesday night.
A weather monitoring station on Orchid Island, an island in the Taiwanese archipelago with around five thousand inhabitants, measured a gust of 342.7 kilometers per hour at 9:53 p.m. (2:53 p.m. in Lisbon), as well as sustained winds. which reached 198.7. kilometers per hour at 9:40 p.m. (2:40 p.m. local time).
The device that measures wind speed broke down shortly after, Taiwanese news agency CNA reported.
Source: TSF
