1. Super Typhoon Ragasa, 2025


The world’s most powerful cyclone of 2025 swept into Hong Kong on September 24, with the T10 signal hoisted early in the morning at 2.40am and lasting for 10 hours and 40 minutes – the second-longest T10 duration since 1945, only slightly falling short of Typhoon York’s 11 hours back in 1999. This also marked the first time since 1964 that the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) issued two T10 signals in the same year.
Though Ragasa thankfully did not result in deaths for us like it did in Taiwan, there were 101 reported cases of injuries treated at public hospitals, and over 1,200 reports of fallen trees logged across the 1823 call centre, the Fire Services Department, and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. 22 flooding cases were reported across Hong Kong, including in the unfortunately typhoon-susceptible Heng Fa Chuen and the Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel, which went viral for a clip that showed tidal waves crashing through its glass doors and flooding the entire hotel lobby.
Over 900 people sought refuge across 50 temporary shelters in Hong Kong, and there were four landslides in Sai Ying Pun, Tuen Mun, Stanley, and Tai Po. In the low-lying, waterside fishing village of Tai O, more than 100 households had to be evacuated, and hundreds of flights were affected as the Hong Kong International Airport was suspended for 36 hours.