{"id":514761,"date":"2026-07-10T23:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/typhoon-bavi-strengthens-again-and-moves-towards-china-brushing-past-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:26:47","slug":"typhoon-bavi-strengthens-again-and-moves-towards-china-brushing-past-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/typhoon-bavi-strengthens-again-and-moves-towards-china-brushing-past-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Bavi strengthens again and moves towards China, brushing past Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beijing<\/strong>.- Typhoon Bavi strengthened again this Saturday into a strong typhoon as it moved toward the eastern coast of China, where it is expected to make landfall early Sunday morning, after brushing past Taiwan with heavy rains and leaving at least 13 injured and nearly 9,000 preventively evacuated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s National Meteorological Center maintained an orange alert this Saturday for Bavi, which at midnight regained the category of a strong typhoon and at 05:00 local time (21:00 GMT Friday) was located about 560 kilometers southeast of the border between the provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The storm was then recording maximum winds of level 14, equivalent to 42 meters per second, and was moving northwest at between 30 and 35 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the official forecast, Bavi will make landfall early Sunday morning on the coast between Taizhou, in Zhejiang, and Fuding, in Fujian, as a strong typhoon or typhoon, before moving inland, turning north, and gradually weakening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese authorities forecast winds of force 9 to 11, with gusts of 12 to 13, until Sunday in areas of the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, Hangzhou Bay, the Zhoushan Archipelago, and the coasts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@deultimominutotv\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@deultimominutotv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zhejiang<\/a> and northeastern Fujian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Meteorological Center also warned of torrential or extremely torrential rains in eastern Zhejiang and northeastern Fujian, with accumulations of between 250 and 800 millimeters in some areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Meteorological Administration also issued a red alert for geological risk for areas of eastern Zhejiang, while authorities called for the evacuation of people in areas exposed to hillsides, ravines, cliffs, and watercourses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Zhejiang, Hangzhou airport had scheduled the cancellation of 198 flights this Saturday morning, while the city of Shanghai announced the cancellation of 387 flights at its two main airports, Pudong and Hongqiao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the coastal town of Xiaguan, more than 11,000 residents were preventively relocated before the possible impact of Bavi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bavi arrives after a week of natural disasters in China marked by rains associated with Typhoon Maysak, which left at least 39 dead in Guangxi; a landslide in Gansu, with 21 fatalities, and storms and tornadoes in Hubei, with eleven dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/tifon-bavi-avanza-islas-sur\/\">Typhoon Bavi advances towards the southern islands with winds of more than 200 km\/h<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Taiwan, the Central Weather Bureau reported that Bavi&#8217;s storm radius reached the northeastern tip of the island around 01:00 local time on Saturday (17:00 GMT on Friday) and expects Taiwan to be out of its radius between Saturday night and early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Emergency Operation Center had recorded 13 injuries as of Friday night, mostly from motorcyclists falling due to the wind or injuries during typhoon preparations, and 8,972 preventive evacuations across the island, nearly 5,000 of them in Hualien County (east).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 07:00 local time (23:00 GMT on Friday), the center of the typhoon was located about 330 kilometers east of Taipei, with maximum sustained winds of 144 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 180 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwanese authorities maintained alerts for torrential or extremely torrential rains in the north and mountainous areas, where more than 200 millimeters had already been recorded this Saturday in parts of Yilan (northeast), Hsinchu (northwest), and Taoyuan (north).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing.- Typhoon Bavi strengthened again this Saturday into a strong typhoon as it moved toward the eastern coast of China, where it is expected to make landfall early Sunday morning, after brushing past Taiwan with heavy rains and leaving at least 13 injured and nearly 9,000 preventively evacuated. 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