{"id":447231,"date":"2025-09-24T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447231\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:46:11","slug":"super-typhoon-ragasa-14-killed-in-taiwan-and-hong-kong-brought-to-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447231\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Ragasa: 14 killed in Taiwan and Hong Kong brought to standstill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ragasa picks up strength over the South China Seapublished at 10:08 BST 23 September<\/p>\n<p>10:08 BST 23 September<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6a365796-6dad-48f7-9a5e-c1a82eb19579.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Sarah Keith-Lucas<\/strong><br \/>Lead weather presenter, BBC Weather<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Map showing the expected path of Typhoon Ragasa from the Philippines towards southern China\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3d61b09a-e0f0-4d4d-b628-b43e4e4400bd.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The expected track of the storm is<br \/>\nin a westerly direction, and has edged further north than previously forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The worst impacts to Hong Kong<br \/>\nwill be felt during Tuesday night and early Wednesday local time.<br \/>\n Although the eye of the storm won\u2019t make direct landfall here, it will<br \/>\npass close to the south as a &#8216;very strong typhoon&#8217;. There will be a<br \/>\nsignificant storm surge of around 2m around the Pearl River Estuary and up to 4<br \/>\nto 5m close to Tolo Harbour, as well as waves of nearly 14m at sea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By Wednesday evening, Landfall is<br \/>\nexpected on the south China coast, likely near Zhanjiang in Guangdong. Ragasa<br \/>\nshould weaken a little before landfall due to increased friction as it<br \/>\napproaches land, but will still be a &#8216;Very strong typhoon&#8217; with sustained winds<br \/>\nof 155km\/hr and gusts up to 220km\/hr,.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Torrential rain is expected today<br \/>\nin Taiwan, southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong, spreading across Guangdong,<br \/>\nHong Kong and into Hainan. Some areas could see 250-450mm of rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ragasa picks up strength over the South China Seapublished at 10:08 BST 23 September 10:08 BST 23 September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-447231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115256753776207456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}