Asia’s strongest storm of 2024, Super Typhoon Yagi, made landfall in China’s Hainan province on Friday (6), with strong winds and storm surges closing schools for a second day and canceling flights in the South China Sea region.
Having doubled in strength since killing 16 people in the northern Philippines earlier this week, Yagi struck the city of Wenchang on Hainan island.
Footage from China’s national broadcaster CCTV showed trees being uprooted, residents being relocated to shelters in Hainan, broken-down trucks on a highway in Guangdong province and workers removing tree branches from a road in Beihai, southern Guangxi.
With winds of 234 kilometers per hour, Yagi is on track to be the world’s second most powerful tropical cyclone of 2024 so far, behind only Category 5 Hurricane Beryl in the Atlantic and the strongest in the Pacific basin.
Yagi is the biggest storm to hit Hainan since 2014, when Super Typhoon Rammasun hit the province as a Category 5 tropical cyclone. Rammasun killed 88 people in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan and caused economic losses of approximately $35 billion.
Yagi, which turned into a super typhoon on Wednesday night (4), was named after the Japanese word for goat and the constellation Capricorn, a mythological creature that is half goat, half fish.
This content was originally published in Super Typhoon Yagi hits southern China with winds that can reach 240km/h on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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