Typhoon Usagi pummelled Hong Kong with torrential rain and ferocious winds yesterday as the Chinese territory prepared itself for the full brunt of the storm.
Hong Kong Observatory, the government weather agency, said the “severe typhoon” made landfall in Guangdong province yesterday evening. It was moving northwest at 22km an hour and was expected to skirt 100km north of Hong Kong this morning.
Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, a crucial manufacturing region for the global economy situated in Guangdong across the border from Hong Kong, were preparing for the possibility that the storm would be the worst to hit the region in more than three decades.