{"id":893,"date":"2024-09-03T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T01:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/?p=893"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T01:15:35","slug":"yagi-edge-closer-to-the-coast-of-southern-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/yagi-edge-closer-to-the-coast-of-southern-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Yagi edge closer to the coast of southern China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Observatory may issue the No 1 standby signal on Tuesday as Tropical Cyclone Yagi is expected to enter within 800km (500 miles) of the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether a higher Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal to be issued depends on the intensity, circulation size of Yagi and its distance from Hong Kong,\u201d the weather forecaster said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Observatory said it would consider issuing the signal between Tuesday afternoon and night.<\/p>\n<p>It added that Yagi was centred about 190km east of Manila as of 10am and was expected to move north-northwest at about 18km\/h (11mph) towards the vicinity of the northern part of Luzon.<\/p>\n<p>It is set to edge closer to the coast of southern China after entering within 800km of Hong Kong on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The forecaster said Yagi had \u201ca higher chance\u201d to move towards the vicinity of the western part of Guangdong and Hainan Island and further intensify.<\/p>\n<p>According to the storm tracker, Yagi will become a typhoon on Thursday, before further strengthening to a severe typhoon and entering within 400km of the city on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Observatory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}