China evacuates hundreds of thousands for Typhoon Bavi
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- China evacuated hundreds of thousands from eastern coastal regions as Typhoon Bavi approached, targeting landfall near Wenzhou amid warnings of exceptionally heavy rains.
- Typhoon Bavi weakened to Category 1 with 144 km/h winds but retained a 1,000km-wide span, bringing dangerous rain bands to Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.
- Wenzhou — a city of around 10 million — faced direct threat from Bavi’s path, prompting preemptive evacuations and emergency preparations.
- Taiwan experienced heavy rainfall and landslide risks as Bavi brushed its northern tip, forcing thousands to evacuate though avoiding a direct hit.
- The Philippines reported 17 deaths from landslides triggered earlier by the storm system before it intensified into a typhoon.
- Japan’s Sakishima islands sustained injuries and widespread power outages after Bavi passed through the Ryukyu chain with strong winds.
- Southern China remains under strain as recovery from Typhoon Maysak continues, which killed 39 people and caused extensive agricultural damage and rare tornadoes.
Why it matters: Back-to-back typhoons strain emergency response capacity in southern China, with Maysak’s 39 deaths and massive agricultural losses compounding Bavi’s threat to 10 million in Wenzhou. The tight succession increases humanitarian and economic risks in already vulnerable regions.
