The acting chief of the Meteorology Division of Macau's observatory forecast today that Macau will be affected by five to eight tropical cyclone, the first one of which could happen in the first half of June.
Lok Chan Wa made the predictions in a press conference at the Macau Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) in Taipa this morning.
Lok described the forecast of five to eight tropical cyclones as "normal to relatively high". He also predicted that some of the cyclones could reach the level of a severe or even a super typhoon.
Lok also said that climate change appeared to raise the frequency of tropical storms. He pointed out that last year's Typhoon Lionrock required the local observatory to hoist the No. 8 warning signal even though the storm moved past Macau at a distance of 450 km. He also underlined that in the past the gap between two storms was usually one or two weeks, but last year there was a gap of just two days and two hours between the hoisting of No. 8 warning signals for different cyclones.
