Category Typhoon Alert

Super Typhoon Neoguri on path for Japan

A super typhoon with the strength of a Category 4 hurricane is on a path for Japan — and it is forecast to get even stronger as it nears the islands. Super Typhoon Neoguri, the third typhoon of the 2014 Western Pacific season, had winds of…

Red alert for Japan’s Kyushu island as landslides & flash floods loom, evacuation recommended to 20,000

Japan’s Meteorological Agency has issued a red-level weather alert for the Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Nagasaki prefectures of the island of Kyushu and recommended the evacuation of about 20,000 from southern Kyushu amid a looming threat of landslides and flashfloods as…

18,000 Flee New Storm Kajiki In Central Philippines, Wrecked By Haiyan One man died and more than 18,000 people fled their homes in the Philippines’ Visayas and Mindanao regions as tropical storm Kajiki battered areas still struggling to recover from…

Hundreds Of Thousands Vietnamese And Chinese Flee As Super Typhoon Haiyan Hits Land   Some 600,000 residents from areas thought to be most at risk in Vietnam headed for seven evacuation centres, while China announced its highest alert. The storm,…