HKO says tropical cyclone Doksuri’s movement uncertain, but may edge closer to HK

Tropical Depression Doksuri - now centered about 1210 kilometers east of Manila, has intensified into a tropical storm and is expected to move towards the seas east of Luzon in the next few days and intensify gradually, said the Hong Kong Observatory.

The weather watchdog on Friday said that Doksuri is forecast to move west-northwest at about 10 kilometers per hour across the seas east of the Philippines. It will then move across the northeastern part of the South China Sea.

It noted that the subsequent movement of Doksuri remains uncertain.

“It may edge closer to the coast of Guangdong in the latter part of next week or move towards the vicinity of Taiwan instead,” it added.

Under the influence of the storm's outer subsiding air, the weather will be persistently very hot over southern China early to midweek next week.

Meanwhile, an anticyclone aloft is bringing generally fine and very hot weather to southeastern China. Locally, temperatures over many places rose to about 33 degrees around noon.