'Super Typhoon' may affect HKG on Monday 23 September

[Melburnian1]

This report from the US Navy's Super Typhoon monitoring centre (on an old fashioned Internet site) mentions the possibility of Super Typhoon Usagi (which is on its way along the Luzon Strait between Taiwan and the eponymous largest Filipino island to near Hong Kong, the latter estimated as a Monday morning arrival) weakening:

http://jtwccdn.appspot.com/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/warnings/wp1713prog.txt

While this report below also mentions 'weakening', it emotively also suggests that the extremity of this typhoon may 'slam' into the Hong Kong or souithern Chinese coast:

'Super Typhoon' Usagi heads for Hong Kong

Since flight captains determine whether or not flights operate, it will be interesting to see whether CX178 departs MEL on Sunday night 22 September (it is due to leave at 2340) or whether there is any disruption at HKG or CAN on Monday morning.

Perhaps it may be the proverbial 'storm in a teacup?'

 

[Happy Trails]

CX have already advised that they are suspending operations at HKG from 18:00 tomorrow.

 

[yohy?!]

HK observatory is forecasting a 'severe' impact to the city from this storm.

It is looking to hit landfall quite close if not head on to the territory on Monday morning.

 

[jetlagger]

HK observatory is forecasting a 'severe' impact to the city from this storm.

It is looking to hit landfall quite close if not head on to the territory on Monday morning.

Batten down the hatches.. I'm glad I delayed my travel to MNL & CAN.

 

[Sprucegoose]

HK observatory is forecasting a 'severe' impact to the city from this storm.

It is looking to hit landfall quite close if not head on to the territory on Monday morning.

I spent time with a few typhoons in honkers, my last 10 was York. Biggest issue will be rainfall.

 

[kamchatsky]

I am glad I have flown off HKG today in time back to work on Monday. otherwise i will be atuck in HKG longer. It won't be pretty that there will be a lot of stranded passengers requiring overnight hotels during Signal 8/9/10.

 

[Sprucegoose]

I am glad I have flown off HKG today in time back to work on Minday. otherwise i will be atuck in HKG longer. It won't be pretty that there will be a lot of stranded passengers requiring overnight hotels during Signal 8/9/10.

We used to evacuate chep lap kok on a signal 3.

 

[Starinc]

I am in Hong Kong now, due to fly out on QF128 on Tuesday so should be ok, guess the plane will be full with the cancelations from today.

QF127 from SYD is on its way but tonight's QF 128 is cancelled. Only at level 3 at the moment but looking at Level 8 warning tonight

 

[Melburnian1]

As Happy Trails advised above, all CX flights tonight are cancelled.

Starinc, QF127 this morning ex SYD to HKG is now shown on the QF website as delayed until Monday 24 September at 0850, while QF128 (due out at 2015 tonight for SYD) is delayed until 1850 on Monday 24 September. Both QF29 that would normally have departed MEL this morning and formed QF30 tonight were or are cancelled, with no indication that I could see as to when these flights would operate. It would surprise if the number of passengers booked today ex MEL and tonight on the cancelled QF30 could all fit on the next day or night's (respectively) flights as surely during school holidays most flights to or from a destination with a Disneyland would be fairly busy.

 

[Homer]

A colleague of mine scheduled to be doing an LHR-HKG-SYD today was advised at LHR this morning that her flight was cancelled and she is instead doing an LHR-DXB-MEL-SYD, arriving about 12 hours later than planned.

 

[Starinc]

Level 8 now, yes and QF 127 didn't leave sydney this morning. QF 127 on Tuesday was not on flight stats when I last looked, so might be another night here or a different way home

 

[Melburnian1]

I could not find anything on the internet. Do parked aircraft ever get damaged in the more severe typhoons or are they such robust pieces of transport equipment that not even a 'Super Typhoon' can damage aircraft windows (which have often remained undamaged in severe hail storms)?

By the way, QF now has a post on its website about the HKG situation with the usual rebooking conditions.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I could not find anything on the internet. Do parked aircraft ever get damaged in the more severe typhoons or are they such robust pieces of transport equipment that not even a 'Super Typhoon' can damage aircraft windows (which have often remained undamaged in severe hail storms)?

By the way, QF now has a post on its website about the HKG situation with the usual rebooking conditions.

what is the wind speed of a typhoon? what is the wind speed of an aircraft flying through the air? you do the math

but aircraft can get damaged on the ground if they move, or something gets thrown into them by the wind.

 

[yohy?!]

All TC warnings are now cancelled - CX is resuming flights in around an hour although there is a huge backlog

 

[samh004]

Saw that it didn't get higher than 8, what a let down

 

[jukebox333]

Saw that it didn't get higher than 8, what a let down

Storm in a teacup??????

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Saw that it didn't get higher than 8, what a let down

Storm in a teacup??????

unfortunately not. at least 25 people killed by the typhoon.

 

[yohy?!]

HK was just very lucky that it veered away from us and slammed into mainland china instead

 

[samh004]

unfortunately not. at least 25 people killed by the typhoon.

I didn't mean that to sound harsh, though didn't know that. But having grown up in HK, you always want to see a direct hit and a 10... and then have a look around the streets afterwards. One year the McDonald's arches were in the middle of a motorway

 

[docjames]

I didn't mean that to sound harsh, though didn't know that. But having grown up in HK, you always want to see a direct hit and a 10... and then have a look around the streets afterwards. One year the McDonald's arches were in the middle of a motorway

I don't understand why you'd want to see that?