Overview
- Typhoon Bavi remains a very large, dangerous storm with one‑minute winds near 185 km/h and central pressure around 930 hPa and is forecast to make landfall along the Fujian–Zhejiang coast on Saturday night.
- Northern and eastern Taiwan has closed schools and offices, suspended trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, evacuated thousands and grounded hundreds of flights as forecasters warn of up to 600–900 mm of rain in mountainous areas and waves exceeding 6–7 metres along coasts.
- China has evacuated residents in coastal provinces, put about 170,000 rescue workers on standby and issued heavy‑rain alerts that extend inland to provinces including Beijing and Hebei as authorities ready reservoirs and close public venues.
- Heavy rain enhanced by Bavi has already caused deadly cascading hazards in the Philippines, where landslides on Mindanao killed at least 15 people and left others missing, and earlier the storm caused infrastructure damage in Guam and the Northern Marianas when it was a supertyphoon.
- Meteorologists say unusually warm sea surface temperatures and a developing El Niño helped Bavi grow very large and moist; short‑term changes such as eyewall replacement cycles and wind shear make exact local impacts uncertain so communities should prepare for both intense rain and broad wind damage.