Typhoon Gaemi live tracking: Taiwan braces for strengthening storm with flight cancellations, office and school closures

According to Japanese media, all flights to and from Miyakojima and Ishigakijima in Okinawa Prefecture, which are in the path of Typhoon Hagibis, have also been canceled.

In Taiwan, all domestic flights and more than 200 international flights have been cancelled as the typhoon is bringing intensifying rainfall and is expected to make landfall tonight.

Many train services have been suspended in China ahead of the typhoon’s arrival tomorrow.

China Railway Nanchang Group has suspended all passenger train services in Fujian province tomorrow in preparation for the arrival of Typhoon Gami, state media reported.

Earlier, Shenzhen railway authorities suspended services of 260 trains on Thursday.

Typhoon Gaemi is expected to make landfall in Taiwan today before heading towards China’s Fujian province, which has already been hard hit by weeks of torrential rains and deadly flooding.

The death toll from heavy rains, landslides and floods in the Philippines has risen to 12 as rescuers dig out bodies buried under the rubble.

Typhoon Gaemi, known as Carina in the Philippines, did not make landfall in the archipelago but intensified seasonal monsoon rains that caused at least 12 landslides and floods in five days, killing at least eight people and displacing 600,000 people, including 35,000 in emergency shelters, according to the country’s disaster risk reduction agency.

The bodies of a pregnant woman and three children aged between nine and 15 years old were exhumed this morning after a landslide buried a rural shack in Agoncillo town, Batangas province, on Tuesday.

Rainfall overnight flooded roads and forced the cancellation of government services and schools in densely populated areas around the Philippine capital.

People were seen wading through knee- to waist-high floodwaters, some in makeshift rubber boats, paddling alongside cars, trucks and SUVs.

Typhoon Gaemi is expected to strengthen further as it moves towards northern Taiwan and is expected to make landfall there later today.

Wind speeds near the center of the storm have already reached about 227 kph (141 mph), making it a powerful typhoon.

According to the Philippine national weather forecaster, Typhoon Gaemi will further strengthen over the next eight to nine hours and may become a super typhoon before making landfall in Taiwan.

A super typhoon is a tropical cyclone with sustained surface wind speeds exceeding 150 miles per hour (240 kmh), which is equivalent to a strong Category 4 or Category 5 hurricane.

Gaemi, which is swirling in the Philippine Sea toward Taiwan, has sustained sustained winds of 241 kph (150 mph), the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane if it were in the Atlantic Ocean.

Floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Gaemi (locally known as Karina) have killed at least eight people in the Philippines and forced more than 600,000 to evacuate.

The storm never made it far inland, but heavy rains that intensified over the past five days caused at least 12 landslides and flooding.

Public services and schools were called off today in densely populated areas around the Philippine capital, Manila, after overnight rains left many areas flooded, submerging cars and leaving people stranded inside their homes.