Typhoon Hinnamnor in east of Asia
High waves hit the northeastern coast of Taiwan as Typhoon Hinnamnor skirts past the island, heading north towards South Korea. Taiwan's weather bureau has issued a heavy rain advisory to northern parts of the island affected by the typhoon.
Typhoon Hinnamnor, the Northern Hemisphere’s strongest tropical cyclone of the year when it formed, moved north of Taiwan ahead of an expected landfall in South Korea early next week.
Hinnamnor was about 385 miles northeast of Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. It weakened over the past two days and was heading north past Japan’s Okinawa archipelago with maximum sustained winds of about 92 miles per hour near its centre, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
The storm was expected to intensify as it passed near the string of islands, with some parts under high wave and storm warnings.
In the Philippines, where the storm is known as Henry, forecasters said that it would continue to bring moderate to heavy rainfall in some areas , along with possible flooding. A man who died in a landslide on Luzon, the country’s most populous island, was the first death linked to the storm, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
Hinnamnor was forecast to weaken again by the time it made landfall on the South Korean mainland near the southern coastal city of Busan,, according to a forecast by that country’s Meteorological Administration. Heavy rain continued in the southern part of the country.
