STORY: :: August 14, 2025
:: Hong Kong
:: Tropical Storm Podul raises Hong Kong’s highest rainstorm warning
“Final week and final month — it’s been raining always, and raining actually closely. Even in Guangzhou, it’s been raining unbelievably exhausting. Many locations in mainland China have skilled flooding, which hasn’t been good for anybody. My journey to Hong Kong this time has been utterly disrupted.”
:: Faculties have been cancelled in addition to a high-profile listening to for pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai
The listening to of Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was cancelled after authorities issued their highest-level “black” rainstorm warning, as supporters queued beneath umbrellas exterior the court docket.
Faculties have been suspended, and a few hospital providers have been additionally disrupted in Hong Kong. In the meantime, airports throughout the area reported cancellation charges of round 20%, in line with information from Flightmaster, as Podul pelted elements of the Chinese language provinces of Guangdong, Hunan, and Jiangxi with greater than 2.76 inches of rain per hour.
Podul made landfall on the coast of China’s southeastern province of Fujian at 00:30 native time (1630 GMT Wednesday), having weakened from a storm to a tropical storm after lashing Taiwan on Wednesday (August 13), the place winds of as much as 118 mph left one individual lacking and scores injured.
