Typhoon Kajiki is set to make landfall along Vietnam’s northern coast on Monday, after gathering strength over the weekend as the system tracked west across warm ocean waters.
The storm was 145 kilometers (90 miles) east of Ha Tinh city and packing top sustained winds of as much as 166 kilometers per hour, according to Vietnam’s national weather agency. The typhoon is forecast to cross the coast on Monday afternoon, bringing heavy rain that could lead to flooding.
The Tho Xuan and Dong Hoi airports in the cities of Thanh Hoa and Quang Tri are expected to be shut temporarily, and some 30,000 people have been evacuated in the storm’s predicted impact area. On the current forecast track, Kajiki will cross land just south of Vinh city.
Several electronics manufacturers have factories near Vinh, including Apple Inc. suppliers Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Luxshare Precision Industry Co., and GoerTek Inc. Vietnamese authorities also warned that the typhoon will threaten mountainous regions further inland with possible floods and landslides.
Some areas along the northern Vietnamese coast are set to receive as much as 600 millimeters (23.6 inches) of rain, according to the weather agency. While the typhoon has passed China’s Hainan, parts of the southern island will still see torrential rain, the China Meteorological Administration said.
Kajiki is expected to weaken slightly as it approaches land due to an upwelling of cooler deep ocean waters to the sea surface, according to a bulletin from the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Topics Catastrophe Natural Disasters
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