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Serious More Letheal STROMS Hurricanes Cyclones Tyhpoons due to Global Warming

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https://hk.news.yahoo.com/瑪娃-明日香港以東200公里登陸-今發三號波機會微-035800004.html



「瑪娃」明日香港以東200公里登陸 今發三號波機會微
[星島日報]
星島日報
2017年9月2日 下午3:00
天文台預測明日多雲,有狂風驟雨及雷暴。

【星島日報報道】一號戒備信號現正生效。「瑪娃」已增強成強烈熱帶風暴,天文台預料明日稍後在香港以東約200公里外的廣東東部沿岸登陸。由於「瑪娃」移動較為緩慢,預料本港今日風勢不會顯著增強,今日改發三號強風信號的機會不大。

在下午3時,「瑪娃」集結在香港之東南偏東約310公里,預料向西北偏北緩慢移動,大致移向廣東東部沿岸,並逐漸增強。

天文台表示,過去數小時「瑪娃」移動仍然較為緩慢。其外圍雨帶正影響廣東東部。由於今日及星期日香港間中有狂風驟雨,天文台提醒市民安排戶外活動應留意最新天氣情況。

根據天文台的9天天氣預報,「瑪娃」會向西北偏北緩慢移動,大致移向廣東東部沿岸,明日該區仍有狂風驟雨。隨著副熱帶高壓脊在下周中期增強,中國東南部天色將會好轉。

明日吹西北風4級,漸轉西南風5級,離岸6級。多雲,有狂風驟雨及雷暴。氣溫介乎26至29度。下周一日多雲,有驟雨及幾陣狂風雷暴。下周二部分時間有陽光,有幾陣驟雨。周三大致天晴。

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record heatwave in the bay area. all previous records in every county and city were broken yesterday and today. the record heat is caused by simultaneous and spontaneous self-combustion of leftists and liberals. it was actually 106-f in sf and 107-f in sj on friday.

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Typhoon never stop! One after another even when the season is supposed to be already ended. Mawar just landed at Teochiew 汕头, now forming new one named Kiko.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...-hong-kong-flights-as-city-braces-for-9179882

Cathay Pacific cancels some Hong Kong flights as city braces for another typhoon
A woman holding an umbrella at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. (File photo: AFP/Isaac Lawrence)
02 Sep 2017 01:55PM
(Updated: 02 Sep 2017 02:44PM)
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HONG KONG: A week after two typhoons hit Hong Kong, the city is bracing for another storm – Typhoon Mawar, which is expected to hit the city on Sunday (Sep 3).

Flagship carrier Cathay Pacific on Saturday cancelled 20 flights scheduled to arrive or depart Hong Kong on Sunday and Monday, including a flight to and from Singapore.

Flights to and from Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Shanghai, Beijing and Bangkok were also cancelled.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Scoot both said in response to queries that they have not cancelled any flights to or from Hong Kong. SIA said that its Hong Kong flights are operating normally, although it is monitoring the situation closely.

Typhoon Mawar is expected to make landfall over the coast of eastern Guangdong on Sunday, and to be closest to Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon, according to the Hong Kong Observatory's website.
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As of 1pm on Saturday, the city had hoisted its standby typhoon signal No. 1, with Typhoon Mawar centred about 320km off Hong Kong.

Mawar will be the third storm to hit the city in two weeks. One of the strongest typhoons on record, Hato, caused serious flooding and mass flight cancellations in Hong Kong and the neighbouring gaming hub of Macau. At least 10 people were killed in Macau and another eight in nearby Guangdong.

Four days later, Tropical Storm Pakhar brought heavy rain and winds of up to 130kmh to the two cities, causing 300 flights to be cancelled or delayed.

Hong Kong and the surrounding region is regularly besieged by typhoons between July and October. The city saw its strongest storm in 1962 during Typhoon Wanda, which killed 130 and left 72,000 people homeless in Hong Kong alone.
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/...to-rico.html?referer=https://news.google.com/


Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 Hurricane, Heads for Puerto Rico

Ellis Cerda hangs storm shutters at Boutique Chrisnelia, a clothing shop, on Tuesday in San Juan, P.R.
ERIKA P. RODRIGUEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
By IVELISSE RIVERA and LIZETTE ALVAREZ
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
SAN JUAN, P.R. — Hurricane-force winds from Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms ever recorded, started to pummel the first Caribbean islands in its path early Wednesday morning as the mammoth Category 5 hurricane took aim at Puerto Rico and other islands.

Wind gusts around 50 miles per hour arrived in Antigua and Barbuda late Tuesday but picked up significant strength as the center of the storm swirled several dozen miles off its shores. The authorities cut off power on those islands before midnight, forcing residents to listen to the latest forecasts on transistor radios in the darkness.

Residents throughout the Caribbean scrambled on Tuesday to rush out of flood zones, stock up on the last available water, food and gas, shutter their homes and brace for what is now, and could remain, a mammoth Category 5 hurricane. On Antigua, many residents were spending the night in nearly 40 shelters set up before the storm because of concerns that their homes, even when boarded up, would topple in the destructive winds.

“We have to prepare for an event that we have never experienced here,” Gov. Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico said at a news conference earlier on Tuesday, calling the hurricane’s arrival imminent and its potential catastrophic.

Packing winds of up to 185 miles an hour, Irma threatened havoc and widespread destruction across Puerto Rico, a United States territory of 3.4 million people, the nearby island of Hispaniola (home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, and the United States Virgin Islands, among others. Cuba is also threatened. The storm is expected to rake or sideswipe Puerto Rico on Wednesday.

President Trump declared a state of emergency in Puerto Rico, Florida and the United States Virgin Islands on Tuesday.

Hurricane Irma is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center and Bryan Norcross, the hurricane specialist at The Weather Channel. The hurricane center said Irma had winds of up to 185 mph as it approached the Leeward Islands. There have been other storms with comparable winds in the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico, where the warm waters fuel particularly dangerous hurricanes.

With Harvey’s destruction still fresh on people’s minds, Florida hustled into action. Gov. Rick Scott activated the state National Guard to help with hurricane preparations and suspended tolls. The governor declared a state of emergency on Monday and spoke with President Trump, who offered “the full resources of the federal government,” Mr. Scott wrote on Twitter.

Most of the latest projections have Irma slamming into the state by Sunday, although it’s unclear where it may make landfall.

The Florida Keys, an especially vulnerable chain of islands, moved quickly to prepare for the crushing wind and its expected tidal inundation. On Wednesday, schools will be closed and mandatory evacuations will begin, county officials said. The Keys’ three hospitals started to evacuate patients on Tuesday.

Miami-Dade, the state’s largest county, announced that schools would close Thursday as officials kicked emergency plans into gear.

But it is Puerto Rico and the nearby northern Leeward islands that are expected to face Irma’s potentially catastrophic winds first. It has been nearly a century since Puerto Rico was hit by a Category 5 storm, Mr. Norcross said.

Puerto Rican officials have warned that the island’s fragile electrical grid could be shut down for days, weeks or even months in some areas. In his news conference, Mr. Rosselló and emergency officials warned that with such powerful winds expected to thrash the island, infrastructure, houses and the phone system will inevitably be damaged.

For Puerto Rico, the hurricane could not have come at a worse time. The island is deep in the throes of an economic crisis and does not have money for the long process of rebuilding.


Shoppers stocked up on supplies at Walmart in San Juan on Tuesday.
ERIKA P. RODRIGUEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
“This is not going to be easy,” said Héctor Pesquera, the superintendent of public security in Puerto Rico.

Abner Gómez Cortés, the head of Puerto Rico’s emergency agency, warned that coastal zones were particular vulnerable — not so much because of rain, as with Harvey — but because of high storm surges of up to 20 feet.

On Tuesday, the lines for fast-dwindling gas, food, water and hardware were interminable and anxiety mounted. One hardware store in San Juan had been nearly picked clean by afternoon.

“This has been like this for the last three days,” said Juan Carlos Ramirez, the store manager. “We’ve sold all of the most necessary items — flashlight, batteries, plywood.”

People standing in line said one their biggest worries was the expected loss of electricity for long periods. “The infrastructure can’t cope with a hurricane,” Ashley Albelo, a shopper, said.

Outside a Sears, Maria Ruiz could not help but remember Hurricanes Hugo and George, which badly damaged Puerto Rico. “Destruction,” she said. “That is what we can expect based on past experiences, and it’s already a Category 5.’’

Similar frantic scenes played out on other nearby islands. In Antigua, southeast of Puerto Rico, many businesses were closed. Supermarkets were overrun and gas stations were packed.

Some island residents sounded stoic and battle-tested. In Guadeloupe, Coralice Line, who was attending the front desk at the Le Creole Beach Hotel & Spa, said she was not particularly distressed. “We are not too worried because we are accustomed to it,” she said by phone from the hotel. “Hurricanes are part of life in the Caribbean islands.”

At the Sugar Bay Club hotel in St. Kitts and Nevis, Ophelia Gardiner, the front-desk supervisor, said that while some guests had fled the island on an American Airlines flight, others had decided to stay and ride out the storm.

“Everything is boarded up and put away and all we have to do is wait and see what happens,” Ms. Gardiner said. She laughed nervously. “I don’t know how you can prepare for a hurricane of that magnitude but we’re doing our best.”

In Miami-Dade County, which is still haunted by the ferocity and wreckage of Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, residents worried and began to prepare earlier than usual. For some, a sense of panic began to set in. Many hotels across Florida had already been booked for the weekend by hurricane-wary residents. Most stores had run out of water, flashlights and other key supplies. Gas stations ran out of fuel.

Hurricane Harvey in Texas also weighed heavily on people’s minds.

“I think because of Texas, people are freaking out,” said Yoseyn Ramos, 24, a Miami resident who said she was worried because she could not find gas anywhere.

In Brickell, a Miami neighborhood that abuts both the Atlantic and the Miami River, Lucas Mattout, 22, was dashing around Publix supermarket looking for water. “They are all sold out,” he said. “Of course, with Harvey, no one wants to take a chance.”

Every storm, though, has its rebels. Jose Fonseca, 52, a Coral Gables resident who works at the Mandarin Oriental on Brickell Key, said he had not done or bought anything to prepare for the storm.

“I think people are panicking because of the news from Texas day after day,” he said. “I will buy some water.” Then, he added, “And some beer of course.”

Ivelisse Rivera reported from San Juan, and Lizette Alvarez from Miami. Reporting was contributed by Marc Santora and Frances Robles from Miami, Kirk Semple and Paulina Villegas from
 

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S'pore is really lucky not to be in an area affected by cyclones and typhoons. You can bet the ministers will be at their usual loss for words and actions.
 
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