The superior Ragasa, the most powerful storm registered in the world in 2025, He hit Macau and Hong Kong this morning. There are dozens of flooded streets, 16 thousand homes are without light, which was turned off by precaution.
The Typhoon Ragasa, the most powerful storm registered in the world in 2025, hit Macau, After causing at least . There are dozens of flooded streets and at least 15 people had to be rescued.
Alda Gama, a Portuguese tourist in Macau, ensures that there were several warnings and that the population was prepared, but it did not cease to cause fear and seizure: “The typhoon passed and it was scary, the high buildings shook a lot.”
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Typhoon’s passage coincided with high tide, the water rose to very high levels and the fish that were in the Pérola river estuary appeared in the lowest area of Macao.
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Winds of more than one hundred kilometers were recorded. More than 2400 people were taken from home.
16 thousand homes are without light
Due to floods on the Macao Peninsula and the Vila de Coloane, the Macao Electricity Company (CEM) cut the energy in the interior port, Ponte and Horta, Barra and Patane Square.
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The concessionaire justified the decision with the need to “Ensure public safety and protect energy supply facilities” and promised to resume the supply “As soon as possible after flooding.”
Evacuation of Macau’s low zones
The fear of floods led the government of the territory to appeal to the evacuation of the low areas of the peninsula. The emergency host centers had welcomed 675 people until 14:21 (7:21 in Lisbon).
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The Civil Protection Operations Center recorded 140 occurrences, especially due to the removal of objects at risk of falling or that had already fallen. There were still 20 fires and only one injured.
In Hong Kong, strong winds ripped parts of the roof from a top passage to pedestrians and knocked down trees all over the city. At least 62 injured were assisted in hospitals.
Macau and Hong Kong Low Alert Level
After passing the largest storm of the year, Macau dropped the alert level, following the example of neighboring Hong Kong.
According to Macao’s weather and geophysical services, the red warning is maintained (the second highest) for possible flooding in the low areas.
In both Macao and Hong Kong, the tropical storm alert scale is formed by signs 1, 3, 8, 9 and 10, with the emission depending on the proximity of the storm and wind intensity.
At 15:00 (08:00 in Lisbon), Ragasa was about 110 kilometers southwest of Macau and moving away from the territory, with Maximum winds of 190 kilometers per hour in the center of the typhoon.
The worst storm of 2025
In September 2018, Typhoon Mangkhut caused 40 injured and serious flooding in Macao. A year earlier, the hat, considered the worst typhoon in more than 50 years to reach the territory, caused ten dead and 240 injured.
Almost 1.9 million people were resolved in Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong and Macau, the Chinese state television CCTV said.
The Chinese meteorological agency predicted that the superior would hit the coast between the cities of Taishan and Zhanjiang between afternoon and evening.
Schools, factories and public transport services were suspended in about a dozen cities in southern China.
Tuffons are recurring meteorological phenomena in southeastern China and Taiwan during summer and fall, when the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean lead to cyclone formation.
