{"id":80466,"date":"2026-08-26T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/80466\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:26:08","slug":"chinas-coastal-regions-on-high-alert-as-typhoon-saudel-cancels-flights-ferries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/80466\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s coastal regions on high alert as Typhoon Saudel cancels flights, ferries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airports in China\u2019s Zhejiang and Fujian provinces remained on high alert for potential delays and cancellations as <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-accidents-weather-disasters?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Typhoon Saudel<\/a> approached landfall on Wednesday, after multiple flights were cancelled in Taiwan and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Saudel, which entered the East China Sea early on Wednesday morning, led to 16 cancelled flights at Taiwan\u2019s Taoyuan International Airport. Affected carriers included Peach, China Airlines, EVA Air, Starlux and Thai Lion Air.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong Airlines fully cancelled its HX658\/HX659 flights between the city and Japan\u2019s Okinawa, while HK Express rescheduled its Okinawa-bound services to August 27 in response to the weather system.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Saudel is the seventh typhoon to make landfall in China this year, after previous ones including Bavi brought torrential rain and floods.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The National Meteorological Centre (NMC) forecasts that Saudel will make landfall between Thursday night and Friday morning along the coast from Xiangshan in eastern Zhejiang, to Fuqing in southeast Fujian province.<\/p>\n<p>Typhoon Narra causes flash floods in southern China<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhejiang province has raised its emergency response to Level 3 \u2013 the third highest of four levels \u2013 and closed all coastal scenic areas, evacuating more than 4,100 tourists from island resorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airports in China\u2019s Zhejiang and Fujian provinces remained on high alert for potential delays and cancellations as Typhoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[51479,24775,553,24776,546,44713,51480,51482,36759,8,51481,45683,162,51483,51484],"class_list":["post-80466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-okinawa","tag-beihai","tag-china-airlines","tag-east-china-sea","tag-eva-air","tag-fujian","tag-guangdong","tag-guangxi","tag-haikou","tag-hong-kong-airlines","tag-japan","tag-national-meteorological-centre","tag-ningbo","tag-okinawa","tag-peach","tag-qiongzhou-strait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}