Typhoon Rammasun: Monster storm buffets south China

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The biggest typhoon to hit southern China in 40 years has killed 17 people, after wreaking death and destruction on the Philippines.

Typhoon Rammasun killed at least eight people on the island of Hainan, with others missing, and nine in the Guangxi region, state media say.

It made landfall on Friday with winds exceeding 200km/h (124mph).

At least 94 people were killed when Rammasun ravaged the northern Philippines earlier this week.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-28390279

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A death toll of 94 in the Philippines is a lot more than I had heard earlier.

[DonViejo]

1. The god of thunder...

Rammasun is the Thai word.

[davidpdx]

2. The damn thing is going to bounce off China and then continue heading up north

last I looked it was going to hit somewhere up near the North Korea/Chinese boarder. We'll get some of the residual rain down here in South Korea. I'm just crossing my fingers it doesn't change course again and hit closer to here as I'm flying out next weekend.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I think that's a new typhoon - Matmo - that will go north of the Philippines, then Taiwan,

then up the Chinese coast to Korea.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/storm-tracker/#?tab=map&stormId=10W&stormName=MATMO

Rammasun went right over the centre of the Philippines, then to the south China coast.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/ETRAP/2014/NWPacific/RAMMASUN/archive.html

It looks like it's a busy typhoon season. Fingers crossed for you too.