Zoom Earth and The Independent forecasts say the eye of super typhoon Yagi is moving closer to the southern coast of China with winds gusting above force 17 and preparing to make landfall.
The storm is moving at 20km/h and is likely to make landfall between Hainan's Wenchang city and Xuwen county in neighboring Guangdong province in the next two to three hours.
Yagi remains at super typhoon strength and is likely to weaken slightly as it interacts with land, but the storm will still strike the region with significant force.
According to SCMP, at 11am on September 6, super typhoon Yagi left Hong Kong (China), the center of the storm was 400km southwest of this special administrative region, moving at a speed of about 15km/h towards Hainan Island to Leizhou Peninsula.
By noon on September 6, super typhoon No. 3 continued to maintain a strong intensity of level 16, gusting above level 17. Observed on infrared satellite cloud images, the eye of the storm was still extremely sharp with the surrounding convection zone taking place extremely strongly.
According to the storm forecast of the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) and several international organizations, super typhoon Yagi is at its peak stage and is unlikely to strengthen further.
According to JTWC, at around 3-4pm on September 6, the eye of the storm will make landfall in Hainan, with winds of level 15-16 and gusts of 17. At 2am on September 7, storm Yagi will leave this island and enter the Gulf of Tonkin.
According to the storm forecast of the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, at 1:00 a.m. on September 7, the center of storm No. 3 was located at about 20.4 degrees north latitude; 109.1 degrees east longitude, in the eastern sea of the Gulf of Tonkin, about 230km east-southeast of Quang Ninh. The strongest wind near the storm center is level 14, gusting to level 17, moving west-northwest at a speed of 15-20km/h.
At 1 p.m. on September 7, the center of storm No. 3 was at approximately 20.9 degrees north latitude; 107.2 degrees east longitude, on the coastal areas of Quang Ninh - Nam Dinh provinces. The strongest winds near the center of the storm were at level 11-12, gusting to level 15, moving west-northwest at a speed of 15-20km/h.
At 1:00 p.m. on September 8, the center of the storm was at about 22.3 degrees north latitude, 102.3 degrees east longitude, on the Vietnam - Laos border area, with winds below level 6, moving west-northwest at a speed of 20km/h, making landfall, weakening and gradually dissipating.
