The latest storm bulletin from the Philippine weather agency PAGASA released at 11:00 a.m. on November 12 said that Typhoon Toraji (local name: Nika) is 225km northwest of Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Philippines or 315km west of Calayan, Cagayan, Philippines.
Storm No. 8 in the East Sea has maximum sustained winds of 95km/h near its center, with gusts of up to 115km/h. The storm is currently moving northwest at a speed of 10km/h.
According to the forecast track, Typhoon Toraji will continue moving over the East Sea and leave the PAR forecast area of the Philippines in the afternoon of November 12.
Philippine typhoon forecasters say Toraji will weaken in the coming days, becoming a low pressure area over waters near southern China. However, the storm will remain a strong typhoon as it moves through the PAR region of the Philippines.
Regarding the impact of storm Toraji, the Hong Kong Meteorological Station (China) stated that while moving across the East Sea, storm Toraji will approach Hong Kong (China) about 800km.
“Toraji will move towards the vicinity of the western coast of Guangdong Province to the Pearl River estuary in the next few days. Under the combined impact of Toraji and the northeast monsoon, the wind in this area will gradually strengthen with showers,” the bulletin said.
The Hong Kong Observatory (China) forecasts that storm No. 8 in the East Sea may be "relatively close" to the area near the Pearl River estuary on November 14 but is likely to have weakened by this time.
The impact of typhoon No. 8 in the East Sea Toraji on Hong Kong (China) was recorded shortly after typhoon No. 7 Yinxing had just weakened.
The latest East Sea storm news from the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said that at 7:00 a.m. on November 12, the center of storm No. 8 was at about 18.5 degrees North latitude; 118.7 degrees East longitude, in the eastern sea of the northern East Sea. The strongest wind near the storm center is level 9-10 (75-102 km/h), gusting to level 12. Storm No. 8 in the East Sea is moving northwest at a speed of about 10 km/h.
The center's forecast for the next 24 to 72 hours states that at around 7:00 a.m. on November 13, storm No. 8 was in the eastern sea, the northern East Sea, at level 9-10, gusting to level 12. At 7:00 a.m. on November 14, the storm was in the northern sea, the northern East Sea, with gradually weakening intensity - level 8, gusting to level 10. At 7:00 a.m. on November 15, storm No. 8 gradually weakened into a tropical depression in the northwest of the northern East Sea.
