„ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS“
More than 18,000 households and facilities across Okinawa lost power as the typhoon pounded Japan’s remote southwestern islands, with the Miyako region hardest hit.
Japanese airlines cancelled dozens of flights, affecting more than 26,000 passengers.
„Miyako is taking worst of typhoon Bavi,“ professional storm-chaser James Reynolds posted on X from Ishigaki on Saturday.
„Conditions on Ishigaki gale force with some overnight gusts to typhoon strength.“
In the Philippines, two landslides triggered by heavy rains driven by Bavi killed at least 15 people on the southern island of Mindanao on Friday, authorities said.
Dozens of ports remain closed across the archipelago nation, with 313 vessels sheltering from „adverse weather conditions“.
Bavi is expected to make landfall in eastern China in the early hours of Sunday.
„Exceptionally heavy rains“ are forecast for eastern Zhejiang province and northeastern Fujian province, according to state television broadcaster CCTV.
In Zhejiang’s Xiaguan Town, the entire population of more than 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes due to their exposure to „strong winds“, CCTV said.
Extreme weather has already wreaked havoc on southern and central China this week, with storms leaving at least 39 dead and causing dozens of rivers to overflow and a reservoir dam to burst.