When was typhoon nesat

September 28, TIFF. Bands of clouds spiral loosely around the center of a storm weakened by its encounter with mountainous Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines. Nesat is forecast to maintain its current intensity or strengthen slightly as it moves northwest toward the Chinese island of Hainan and then Vietnam. Nesat reached its peak intensity in the hours before making landfall over the Philippines on September Nesat drenched Luzon with heavy rains on September 27 and 28, causing widespread flooding.

The floods and storm damage caused 33 deaths, with 41 people missing, said local news reports on September Many of the deaths occurred in and around Manila, which flooded from both the storm surge and from rain-swollen rivers. Nearly , people were affected by the typhoon in the Philippines. The floods also damaged infrastructure and agriculture. Government offices, schools and universities were closed. In Isabela province, residents have been evacuated from four coastal towns under threat from storm surges.

Earlier, about , people in several towns of the Albay province were ordered to leave their homes and seek shelter elsewhere. The Philippines suffers frequent typhoons, about 20 a year, but Nesat is thought to be the largest this year. It comes almost exactly two years after Typhoon Ketsana killed more than people.

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All signals were cancelled at a. At the Hong Kong Observatory Headquarters, the lowest instantaneous mean sea-level pressure of The weather in Hong Kong was mainly fine and hot with some haze on 27 September. It continued mainly fine on the morning of 28 September, but became cloudy with squally showers in the afternoon. Squally showers affected Hong Kong on 29 September with more than 60 millimetres of rainfall recorded over Lantau Island and the western part of the New Territories.

Under the influence of the outer rainbands of Nesat, the weather remained mainly cloudy with a few showers on 30 September. During the passage of Nesat, there were reports of fallen trees and 15 reports of collapsed scaffoldings in Hong Kong. A total of 25 people were injured.

In particular, a large sheet of scaffolding was blown down in Prince Edward Road East in San Po Kong, hitting a taxi and injuring its passenger.