Tropical Cyclone Yagi likely to move closer to Hong Kong later this week: forecaster
Yagi is expected to become a typhoon on Thursday and be within 400km of the city, with maximum wind speeds of 120km/h at its centre
The Hong Kong Observatory said on Sunday that an area of low pressure would strengthen and move towards Luzon in the next couple of days before entering the northern part of the South China Sea.
The forecaster expects Yagi to drift to the coast of Southern China later this week.
Yagi means goat in Japanese, and was previously used to name a typhoon in 2018.
“Under its influence, the weather will become unsettled gradually over later parts of this week,” it said.
According to the Observatory’s forecast, the tropical depression will become a tropical storm on Monday, before further strengthening to a severe tropical storm on Tuesday when it will come within 800km of Hong Kong.
