Hong Kong will issue the No 1 typhoon signal between 5pm and 8pm on Tuesday as Tropical Cyclone Yagi continues to move further toward the city, with the chance of raising the higher No 3 warning later this week being “relatively high”.
“According to the present forecast, Tropical Cyclone Yagi will still maintain a distance of more than 600km (372 miles) from Hong Kong and will not bring direct impact to [the city] during the day [on Tuesday],” the observatory said at 9.30am.
Yagi was centred about 400km southeast of the Pratas Islands, known as Dongsha, as of 10am. It is forecast to move northwest at about 12km/h (7.5mph) across the northern part of the South China Sea and intensify gradually.
The weather will be mainly fine and very hot on Tuesday with isolated showers and light winds. The forecaster expected the weather would still be very hot on Wednesday with a few squally thunderstorms.
The weather will deteriorate progressively in the following couple of days. It will be windy with squally showers. Seas will be rough with swells.
