Meteorologists expect them to continue to weaken as they advance to China
The superior Ragasa, the most powerful storm registered on the planet in 2025, weakened upon reaching the southern coast of China, the Chinese national meteorological observatory, which lowered the rating for tropical cyclone.
Ragasa arrived the land next to the city of Beihai, in Guangxi province, around 06:30 (22:30 on Wednesday in Lisbon), with winds of up to 75 kilometers per hour (km/h).
The storm is moving west at a speed between 15 and 20 km/h. Meteorologists expect them to continue to weaken as they advance to China.
Before arriving at Guangxi, Ragasa passed off the neighboring province of Guangdong on Wednesday afternoon, with gusts of 150 km/h, forcing the withdrawal of more than 2.1 million people.
According to the Chinese official news agency Xinhua, the superior paralyzed much of economic activity and transport in cities such as Yangjiang, Shenzhen and the province’s capital, Canton, with 18 million people.
To support rescue efforts, the Chinese central government assigned 350 million yuans (about 41.8 million euros), and provided pumping equipment and power generators to the most affected areas.
In Yangjiang, 1,038 shelters were set up to host thousands of displaced people, while in Shenzhen, the country’s technological hub, about 400,000 people were removed from housing and the airport was closed two days.
In Guangxi, high -speed trains were suspended on the coastal lines, maritime connections to the canceled islands and more than six thousand fishing vessels were called back to the ports.
In Beihai, the full suspension of classes, public transport and commercial activities were ordered.
Chinese authorities maintain orange warning for tufts and red alert for storm tides (in both cases the second highest level).
Civil Protection warned of rainfall, which can exceed 200 millimeters in parts of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan, with risk of flooding, landslides and storm tides in the Pearl River Delta, which includes Macau and Hong Kong.
The former British colony is gradually returning to normal, after almost two days of stopping due to Ragasa, which forced the authorities to maintain the maximum alert – level 10 – for almost eleven hours, a historic maximum.
Recovery efforts are progressing to remove 1,220 fallen trees and resume more than 1,000 canceled flights, which have affected about 140,000 passengers. The typhoon also caused widespread floods and injured at least 100 people.
In the neighboring Macao, more than 250 occurrences were recorded, including flooding in the city’s low areas, with a maximum height of 1.51 meters, and safety reasons, which affected 16,000 dwellings.
More than 700 people resorted to the reception centers and health services recorded seven injured, including one with serious injuries, which had to be hospitalized, the Civil Protection Operations Center announced today.
Before heading to China, Ragasa caused at least ten filipinas and 14 dead in Taiwan, where today still took place for 46 missing, according to local press.
