Typhoon Talim has lashed south-eastern China and displaced 230,000, as large swathes of Asia reel from torrential rain and extreme heat.
Updated 20 July 2023:
HANOI: Typhoon Talim reached Vietnam on Tuesday (Jul 18) after passing through China less forcefully than feared, with no deaths reported in either country despite nearly 260,000 people relocating before the storm hit.
Talim first made landfall in southern China late Monday evening, battering the coast of Guangdong province with maximum winds of 136.8km per hour.
By Tuesday it had weakened to a tropical storm as it slowly made its way across the Vietnamese island of Bach Long Vi before moving towards the neighbouring Chinese region of Guangxi.
The storm passed by Bach Long Vi, an outlying island east of the capital Hanoi, "with maximum winds of about 60km per hour" the national weather bureau said Tuesday.
Authorities revoked an evacuation order in the northern port city of Hai Phong, a day after 30,000 people were relocated from there and the province of Quang Ninh.
"People's activities have returned to normal in the city," state newspaper Thanh Nien reported
Source : https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/weakened-typhoon-talim-hits-vietnam-after-passing-through-china-3636296.
Updated 19 July 2023:
By Tuesday afternoon, the Hainan Provincial Meteorological Bureau lifted its typhoon warning, saying the typhoon had weakened into a tropical storm at around noon.
According to China’s National Meteorological Center, Talim is expected to weaken further as it moves to the northwest, dissipating into the hills of northern Vietnam on Wednesday.
The center said rainfall and gales are expected to continue to hit Southern Chinese provinces including Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian.
Source : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/18/china-typhoon-talim-tropical-storm/c028dae6-256d-11ee-9201-826e5bb78fa1_story.html
Posted 18 July 2023:
On 18 July, three airports in northern Vietnam closed due to weather conditions - Noi Bai (Hanoi), Van Don (Quang Ninh) and Cat Ba (Hai Phong).It disrupted flights and shut fishing villages and coastal tourist spots, but weakened on its way to Vietnam.
Talim whipped Guangdong province with winds of nearly 140km/h (87mph) Monday night, before making landfall in neighbouring Guangxi on Tuesday.
Trees fell on moving vehicles, a whale washed ashore and a freezer full of ice cream floated off in floods as the storm barrelled through Guangdong.
Firefighters rescued passengers trapped in their cars by fallen tree branches as they cleared roads of debris and assisted other motorists to safety, state media reported.
Local authorities called back some 2,700 fishing vessels and ordered more than 8,200 fish-farming workers to be evacuated as storm surges lashed the coast, Xinhua said.
The typhoon hit two days after a remote town in the north-western province of Xinjiang saw China's highest temperature on record at 52.2C (126F).
Source : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66229532