UPDATE (5.18pm CST, August 1, 2016): All ferries from Shenzhen to Hong Kong this evening are canceled due to typhoon Nida, according to staff at the Shekou ferry. Click here for further updates on closers.
Bing! That’s the sound of a typhoon.
Or the sound of a text message about incoming typhoon Nida, which is on track to hit the PRD tonight or tomorrow with “violent storms,” according to a Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory warning that was sent to Shenzhen residents’ phones yesterday.
Some sources have predicted the storm could make landfall as early as 2pm today, entering a 400 kilometer radius of Hong Kong with sustained gusts of up to 155 kilometers per hour.
The warning Shenzhen China Mobile users recieved to prepare for the typhoon.
China issued a yellow alert for the fourth typhoon expected to slam southern China this year, according to Reuters. Hong Kong is expect to issue typhoon standby signal No 3 around noon today.
“The typhoon poses a serious threat to the areas around the Pearl River Estuary,” Queenie Lam Ching-chi, a senior scientific officer at the Hong Kong Observatory’s tropical cyclone tracker, told South China Morning Post. “We will not rule out the possibility of issuing a stronger warning signal [after No 3].”
Accuweather.com reports that on Sunday morning typhoon Nida was about 426 kilometers north of Manila, Philippines, and moving northwest at 24 kilometers per hour.
What does this mean for you? A yellow alert is the third most serious out of four alert levels, but it's better to be safe than to throw caution to the wind. Keep your eye on the weather, and take potted plants off the balcony asap!
Click here to watch the storm's movement in real time.
[Image via weather.com, SCMP]
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