We’ve only just emerged from several days of sheltering in place while Super Typhoon Ragasa wreaked havoc across Hong Kong and there’s already another tropical storm heading our way before we can recover from this most recent bout of cabin fever.
Super Typhoon Ragasa is now well and truly past us, but Hong Kong’s not off the hook just yet. Tropical Cyclone Bualoi has been quietly brewing in the Pacific Ocean and is steadily inching its way closer to Hong Kong with a maximum sustained wind speed of 110km per hour near its centre, according to the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO).
Currently, Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi is gathering momentum across the Pacific Ocean on a northwesterly path that looks to cross central Philippines in the coming days, where it will make landfall before continuing toward the South China Sea. Its track prediction sees the severe tropical storm entering within 800 kilometres of Hong Kong on September 27 and 28, when Bualoi is forecasted to intensify into a typhoon. It’s still a bit too early to tell how strongly the storm will affect the city – that all depends on its eventual path development and growing intensity as it sweeps across the South China Sea.
At the moment, it’s looking like Hainan and the coast of Vietnam will bear the brunt of the typhoon’s might. However, a ridge of high pressure over the southeastern China coast combined with Bualoi means it will be windy over the weekend, and the sea will be rough with swells.
HKO has forecasted sunny periods with some showers on Saturday, and cloudy weather with showers and sunny intervals on Sunday as Bualoi approaches the South China Sea. Let’s hope we can avoid unstable weather and actually have a nice weekend this time…
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