The Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement yesterday that as Super Typhoon “Doksuri” would remain a certain distance away from Macau with its strong wind zone being “unlikely” to have a direct impact on the city, there’s a “relatively low” probability of hoisting the No.3 tropical cyclone signal early this morning.
The No.1 standby signal, hoisted at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, remained in effect last night, the weather station said in the statement.
According to the statement, Doksuri, which was located 580 km east of Macau at 8 p.m. yesterday, was moving northwesterly towards the area between Fujian province and the eastern coast of Guangdong province.
The probability of hoisting the Blue Storm Surge warning remained “relatively low”, the bureau said in the statement, in which it noted that Doksuri was expected to make landfall around 500 km to the east of Macau today.
Under the influence of the typhoon’s southwesterly airstream and its connected cloud bands, the observatory predicted that the winds in Macau would “slightly” strengthen, with occasional showers and thunderstorms between today and tomorrow.
Affected by the typhoon’s outer subsidence airstream, yesterday’s temperature reached 38 degrees Celsius as a maximum, according to the weather station.
Meanwhile, according to the Hong Kong Observatory, the No.1 standby signal, which it hoisted at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, would stay up between last night and this morning, but there would not be a high chance of issuing higher tropical cyclone warning signals.
On its official website, the neighbouring city’s observatory forecast Doksuri to be closest to Hong Kong this morning, “skirting at around 400 kilometres to the east of the territory”.
Meanwhile, Macau’s weather station has up its yellow hot weather alert, indicating that very hot weather was expected today again.
