Overview

• China’s Guangdong province reported landfall on Hailing Island in Yangjiang and said the storm is tracking west and weakening after passing south of Hong Kong.
• Officials in Guangdong carried out roughly 1.89 million preventive evacuations, including 400,000 in Shenzhen, while Guangzhou enforced the “five stops” and opened 1,570 shelters.
• A breached barrier lake in Hualien, Taiwan flooded Guangfu, leaving 17 dead, 17 missing and 32 injured, with 135 people rescued as door‑to‑door searches continue.
• Hong Kong issued its highest typhoon signal (No. 10), shutting schools, most transport and many businesses, with coastal flooding and dozens of injuries reported.
• A weather station in Chuandao recorded 241 km/h gusts, a record for Jiangmen, and earlier in the storm’s path the Philippines reported at least 10 deaths.