Typhoon Wipha causes major flight disruptions in Hong Kong and southern China
caused major
flight disruptions
Sunday in
Hong Kong
and at some nearby airports in China as it moved west along the southern coast.
Airports in Hong Kong,
Shenzhen
, Zhuhai and
Macao
canceled or postponed all their daytime flights, their websites showed. Some high-speed train service in the area was suspended.
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The Hong Kong Observatory issued a
hurricane signal No. 10
, its highest warning. The eye of the storm was passing just south of the city around midday with maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers (87 miles) per hour, the Observatory said.
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The government said over 200 people had headed to
public shelters
and that it had received dozens of reports of fallen trees.
Hong Kong Disneyland
and other amusement parks were closed.
The storm, which reached typhoon strength overnight, was headed toward Macao and the neighboring Chinese city of Zhuhai. It was forecast to make landfall late Sunday and continue moving west, reaching Vietnam later this week.
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Wipha, which is a Thai name, passed over the Philippines at tropical storm strength and drenched parts of Taiwan on Saturday. Names for typhoons in the western Pacific are chosen by the countries in the region.
In the Philippines, the storm intensified
seasonal monsoon rains
, leaving at least one villager dead in floodwaters in northern Cagayan province.
More than 370,000 people were affected by days of stormy weather, including 43,000 who fled to government-run emergency shelters or homes of relatives due to flooding, landslides and fierce wind. More than 400 houses were damaged in the onslaught, officials said.
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