"Life-threatening conditions are imminent with sustained gusts hitting 215 kilometers per hour." Watch: Thousands evacuated as super typhoon Ragasa makes landfall in Philippines | BBC Newstranscript- Cities in China's southern provinces are 0:02 bracing for Ragasa, the strongest 0:04 typhoon to hit the country this year. 0:06 Authorities in the city of Shenzhen say 0:09 that they plan to evacuate 400,000 0:12 people. And the Hong Kongbased airline, 0:14 Cathy Pacific says it expects to cancel 0:17 more than 500 flights as the typhoon 0:19 approaches the Chinese financial hub. 0:22 More than 10,000 evacuees are sheltering 0:24 in the Philippines as heavy rains and 0:26 gale force winds have already struck 0:28 there. The country's weather bureau 0:30 warned life-threatening conditions are 0:32 imminent with sustained gusts hitting 0:35 215 kilometers per hour. Schools and 0:38 government offices have been closed in 0:40 the Manila region and dozens of other 0:42 provinces in anticipation of heavy 0:45 rainfall. And we're keeping an eye on 0:47 the live shot from Taiwan where the 0:49 state weather service predicts a chance 0:51 of extremely torrential rain in the 0:54 country's east. Although the typhoon 0:56 isn't directly expected to hit Taiwan. 0:59 So let's get a full update with the very 1:01 latest. Here's Bennison J. Estaha who is 1:04 a weather specialist at Pagaza, the 1:05 Philippine Atmospheric Geoysical and 1:08 Astronomical Services Administration. 1:10 Sir, thank you so much for just talking 1:12 us through where are we now with this 1:14 super typhoon? Where are the points of 1:16 danger? 1:19 Yes, good evening Kasha. As of now, we 1:21 have a super typhoon Nando with 1:23 international name of Ragasa at around 1:26 the coastal waters of the northernmost 1:27 islands of the Philippines. It has 1:29 passed over there. It's currently over 1:31 Luzon Strait and may exit the Philippine 1:33 area for responsibility within the next 1:35 12 hours heading towards southern China 1:38 on Wednesday. 1:39 And we expect uh a lot of rainfall also 1:42 in Taiwan, but we don't expect it to 1:44 directly hit Taiwan. 1:48 Yes, based on our latest forecast track, 1:50 it will move across Lison Strait. That's 1:53 in between the northernmost islands of 1:55 the Philippines and Taiwan. So, we're 1:57 expecting much of the rainfall is 1:59 actually in those areas in northern 2:01 Luzison uh directly due to the super 2:03 typhoon and other parts of our country, 2:05 the central portions of the Philippines 2:07 will also be affected by the southwest 2:08 monsoon. Uh we're we're having some 2:11 rains here in Metro Manila. We're not 2:12 directly affected by Ragasab, but we're 2:14 expecting some moderate to heavy rains 2:16 tonight. 2:17 Now, the the the Philippines, they 2:19 suffer typhoons. You suffer typhoons on 2:21 on a routine basis. How does this 2:23 particular one, how does Ragasa compare? 2:27 Super typhoon Ragasa so far is our 2:29 strongest tropical cyclone as of this 2:32 year and one of the strongest in recent 2:34 years. And um so far we've had um 2:37 different types of typhoons. Um actually 2:39 the first 6 months we've had like 2:41 tropical depressions, the weaker ones, 2:43 but this one and the in the coming 2:45 months we're expecting more tropical 2:47 cyclones that are stronger and they have 2:50 higher chance of making landfall towards 2:51 the central and and southernmost 2:53 portions of the Philippines. 2:55 And and is that because we're seeing 2:57 more uh extreme weather events given due 3:00 to climate change? Is that why you're 3:02 expecting more of these very very strong 3:04 typhoons? 3:07 Definitely. There have been studies 3:08 saying that there should there might be 3:11 some stronger tropical cyclones in the 3:13 next few years or few decades and lots 3:16 of them could reach around typhoon or 3:18 super typhoon categories with like 3:20 minimum uh wind speeds of like 120 km 3:23 per hour. Super typhoons could reach 180 3:26 to up to 200 kilometers per hour. We 3:28 have been preparing for that um 3:30 scenarios regarding typhoons. So we have 3:33 um measures regarding heavy rainfall 3:35 warnings as well as storm surge warnings 3:38 and wind warnings. 3:40 And just very briefly if you would 3:41 obviously the Philippines lots of 3:43 different islands but people you you 3:45 feel that they do have the information 3:48 that they need in order to brace 3:50 themselves for this. 3:53 Yes. As much as possible. We have 3:54 frequented our warnings. We have 3:57 bulletins every 3 hours as well as heavy 3:59 rainfall warnings every 3 hours. We have 4:02 different categories of rainfall 4:04 warnings with different impacts per 4:06 category and um as well as storm surge 4:09 warning. We have learned from the past 4:10 typhoons such as Hyen in 2013. That's 4:13 why we have also impact based forecast. 4:16 We're focused more on what the weather 4:18 or what the typhoons will do to your 4:21 community instead of just giving details 4:23 as to as to what how large or what the 4:26 typhoon is all about. 4:27 Okay. Bennis and J Eststera, thank you 4:29 so much for joining us from the 4:31 Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and 4:33 Astronomical Services Administration.
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