Macau has issued alert number 1 in the face of the approach of tropical storm Yagi, which has entered the South China Sea, said the territory's Meteorological and Geophysical Services (SMG).
The centre of the tropical storm is ‘less than 800 kilometers' from Macau, the SMG said, predicting that the territory will be affected as, over the next two days, Yagi ‘crosses the northern part of the South China Sea’ in a north-westerly direction, ‘moving approximately to the area between the Leizhou peninsula and Hainan Island’.
According to current forecasts, Yagi will ‘intensify and approach the southern Chinese coast between late Wednesday and Thursday’.
As a result, ‘winds in Macau will intensify and showers and thunderstorms will become more frequent, with a greater likelihood of tropical storm signal number 3 being issued at that time,’ said the SMG.
The tropical storm warning scale is made up of signals 1, 3, 8, 9 and 10, the issuing of which depends on the proximity of the storm and the intensity of the wind.
In September 2018, Typhoon Mangkhut caused 40 injuries and severe flooding in the territory.
A year earlier, Hato, considered the worst typhoon to hit the territory in more than 50 years, caused ten deaths and 240 injuries.
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