with winds of 191 kilometers per hourthe super typhoon Doksuriname that comes from the Korean translation of eagle, first struck in Filipinas. It was at the end of last week, when an old ferry that was just 46 meters from the port of Talim Island, southeast of Manila, capsized. The boat tipped over and its stabilizer broke as passengers were swung to the side in the heavy storm. Twenty-six people drowned. A number that amounts to 63 if the victims that occurred for the floods and landslides of land in five regions of this vast archipelago with more than 7,000 islands.
Doksuri continued through Southeast Asia, leaving one dead in taiwan and causing long blackouts in some coastal regions of China. Despite the fact that the typhoon rose weakened to the north of the Asian giant, the worst part was taken beijing, where the most intense rains fell in 140 years. never been seen nothing the same since there are records.
The roads they turned into rivers through which rescue teams sailed in boats. Nearly a million people were evacuated and hundreds of flights were canceled at the city’s two main airports. So far, authorities have confirmed the death of 21 personas. But there are dozens of missing.
The extreme weather does not let up in the capital of China, which has passed almost instantly from a Unprecedented heat hello to receive more water in three days than falls in a normal summer month, 744.8 mm of rain, a historical record.
Chinese meteorologists explained that as the residual circulation of Doksuri rain clouds blew northward, a system of subtropical and continental high pressure in the atmosphere it also blocked their passage to the east, causing a convergence of water vapor that acted as a dam that store the water.