The probability of the No. 3 signal being hoisted this morning is high as tropical storm Barijat moves nearer to Macau, the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) said in a statement last night, and that the probability of a No. 8 typhoon signal is medium.
The weather station hoisted the No. 1 signal at 11 a.m. yesterday and as of 11 p.m. last night, Barijat was located 400 kilometres east-southeast of Macau and was forecast to move west at around 15km/h.
The SMG statement said that Barijat would strengthen today, moving quite quickly westward across the northern part of the South China Sea, heading towards the Leizhou peninsula, the southernmost tip of Guangdong province.
This image taken from the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) website at around midnight shows the projected trajectory of Typhoon Barijat moving towards to Leizhou peninsula.
