Typhoon Wipha made landfall in Taishan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Sunday evening, according to Guangdong’s meteorological service, after battering Hong Kong and Macau with rain and strong winds. The storm reach the coast at 5:50 local time, the meteorological service said, with maximum wind force equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane. It had weakened into a tropical storm by Sunday night, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, as it continued to move westward and southward. The typhoon, the sixth of the year, brought heavy showers, sea swells and sustained winds of about 106 miles per hour as it skirted the southern edge of Hong Kong, according to the Hong Kong Observatory, the territory’s weather agency. Strong winds were expected to persist in Hong Kong for some time, the observatory said, and Wipha was expected to dump heavy rains around the Pearl River Estuary through Monday. Hong Kong issued a No. 10 hurricane signal, the highest on its warning scale, for the first time since 2023 as the storm approached. The warning level was later downgraded as the storm began to move away.

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