The meteorological phenomenon reached strong typhoon status in the early morning and at 14:50. local time. entered the eastern shore of Xuwen County, with maximum winds of 42 meters per second and central pressure of 965 hectopascals.

The Hainan Emergency Command Centre reported that up to the night of 4,065 people had been evacuated from risk areas, out of a total of over 143,000 expected.

Guangdong authorities noted that the typhoon will impact mainly the western part of the province with heavy rains and gusts, and warned about possible floods and landslides.

The secretary of the Communist Party in Guangdong, Huang Kunming, stressed at a coordination meeting that the phenomenon coincides with the National Day holiday and the Mid-Autumn Festival, which increases the risk due to the high flow of people and vehicles.

He also indicated that the region has been hit in recent weeks by several typhoons and rains have saturated soils in areas of the provincial west, reducing resilience to disasters.

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