Nearly two million people have been evacuated from China’s Guangdong province as Super Typhoon Ragasa, the most powerful storm of 2025, barrels toward the southern coast.
Authorities in Zhuhai have issued the highest-level weather alerts, warning that the city could see an entire month’s rainfall compressed into a single day. Emergency shelters have been opened, and residents have been urged to stay off the streets as winds intensify.
The storm, classified on par with a Category 5 hurricane, has already unleashed havoc across Asia. In Taiwan, at least 14 people were confirmed dead after a mountain lake overflowed, sending torrents of water surging through eastern communities — an event geologists likened to a “tsunami from the mountains.”
Ragasa has churned across the South China Sea for several days, bringing pounding rains and destructive winds to the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and now southern China.
Flights and train services have been suspended, schools and offices closed, and coastal regions placed on lockdown as Guangdong braces for impact. Officials warn that in addition to flooding, storm surges and landslides pose a serious threat to life and property.
