super tight fun yagi Asia’s strongest storm this year made landfall on the coast of China’s hyan Province on Friday bringing Gusty winds and heavy rain that forced schools to close for a second day and canceled flights in the South China Sea typhoon yagi made landfall in southern China on Friday forcing more than a million people to evacuate closing schools and businesses disrupting transportation and raising alarms about the risk of landslides and flooding [Music] yagi one of the strongest storms of 2024 made landfall on the island province of hyan at 400 p.m. local time according to the China National meteorological Center the storm had maximum sustained winds of 144 mph equivalent to a category 4 hurricane according to the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center [Music] the center said the storm was the strongest to hit hyan in a decade Guangdong hyan and Guang Shi provinces have raised their emergency response to the highest level warning residents of the risk of landslides and flooding National task forces have been dispatched to Guangdong and hyan to help prepare for the severe weather State media reported that more than 410,000 people in hyan and 670,000 in Guangdong had been evacuated due to the storm hon authorities asked residents to stay home and ordered the closure of all non-essential businesses markets public trans transport schools and tourist attractions guangdong’s transport Department closed six highways and a major Bridge linking Hong Kong maau and xuhai in hyan haiku mean International Airport canceled all flights scheduled for Friday the storm passed through Hong Kong injuring nine people and forcing the stock market to close on Friday the Hong Kong Observatory warned of strong winds and urged people to stay away from the coast yagi which killed at least 16 people in the Philippines earlier this week became a super typhoon after an extremely rapid period of intensification in the South China Sea The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said w not the center defines a super typhoon as a tropical storm with Winds of 150 m per hour or more in the western North Pacific out yagi was the most severe storm to hit hyan since 2014 when typhoon rameson hit the island Province as a category 5 tropical storm Rison killed 88 people in hyan guangong Gangi and yunan and caused more than 44 billion un 6.25 billion in economic losses okay now it’s here holy moly and we sit we outside please like share and subscribe to our channel to get the latest weather updates every day don’t forget to turn on the notification Bell so you don’t miss any of our videos have a nice day and be prepared for any weather conditions see you in the next news [Music]