Typhoon Soulik

Tropical cyclone Debbie has made landfall in Queensland as a category 4 cyclone with winds of more than 150 kilometres per hour. The cyclone crossed the coast near Airlie Beach on Tuesday afternoon. Reports of wind gusts in excess of 200km per hour and rainfall of more than 200mm of rain have been ...

A powerful typhoon has brought chaos to parts of south-eastern China, with thousands evacuated and millions of homes left without power. Typhoon Soudelor struck Fujian province late on Saturday night, bringing rains and gale force winds, state media said. The typhoon earlier swept across Taiwan, ...

Every year, typhoons over the western North Pacific – the equivalent to hurricanes in the North Atlantic – cause considerable damage in East and Southeast Asia. Super Typhoon Haiyan of 2013, one of the strongest ocean storms ever recorded, devastated large portions of the Philippines and killed at least ...

Typhoon Soulik struck Taiwan at the beginning of the weekend, killing two people before moving on into Guangdong in southern China, where 300,000 people have already been evacuated. Classed as a category 3 tropical storm according to the Saffir Simpson Scale, Soulik's maximum peak sustained ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated Saturday along China's southeastern coast as Typhoon Soulik struck, where the storm was expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain. Upwards of 305,000 people left their homes in eastern China's Fujian province, according to state-run China Daily, ...

MANILA, Philippines - Typhoon Huaning (Soulik) has maintained its strength as it closes in on Taiwan late Thursday, July 11. Huaning was 690 kilometers east northeast of Itbayat, Batanes as of 4 pm, carrying maximum sustained winds of 185 km/h near the center and gusts of up to 220 km/h. Storm signal ...

The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) yesterday said it could issue a land warning tomorrow night for Typhoon Soulik if its speed and path remain unchanged. Soulik was upgraded from a tropical storm at 8am yesterday. By 5pm, the center of the typhoon was 1,960km east of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), with maximum ...

Washington — American officials are treading diplomatic waters carefully in providing humanitarian relief to Taiwan following the typhoon there earlier this month. The US has quietly sent the amphibious ship USS Denver as well as heavy-lift helicopters and cargo planes to the region to bring relief supplies ...