At 4.50am this morning, tropical storm Son-Tinh made landfall on South China’s Hainan Island.
According to Xinhua News, local meteorologists reported that as Son-Tinh landed in Wanning city, winds as fast as 23 meters per second were recorded in the eye of the storm.
Prior to its arrival in China, the National Meteorological Center issued a level 4 emergency response yesterday, and predicted that the tropical storm would make its way towards southern Guangdong and Hainan.
The Center also issued a blue alert – the lowest in China’s four-level weather warning system, followed by yellow, orange and, for the most severe weather, red.
In anticipation of the storm's arrival, authorities at Haikou Harbor, in Hainan's capital, Haikou, halted all ferry services along the Qiongzhou Strait, in addition to temporarily suspending train activity that relies on the ferry traffic to operate.
Xinhua has reported that Son-Tinh marks the ninth typhoon to hit the region since the beginning of 2018, although we were unable to find evidence that the current tropical storm has been upgraded to typhoon status.
It is expected to reach Vietnam's northern coast in the early hours of the morning tomorrow, after which it will continue to move inland.
Hong Kong's weather authority has also announced that a new tropical cyclone appears to be emerging to the east of the Philippines as a result of an intensifying low-pressure area, according to South China Morning Post.
To track the storm's path in real time, click here. That’s will continue to publish updates on Son-Tinh as we receive them.
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