Super typhoon Ba Vi maintains intensity for 78 consecutive hours, heading towards the next landfall area
Super typhoon Ba Vi is forecast to pass through northeastern Taiwan (China) and then make landfall in eastern China.
The latest storm news on the morning of July 7th from the US Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) said that Super Typhoon Ba Vi is no longer classified as a super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), as it has weakened to about 225 km/h, equivalent to a Category 4 storm.
According to the JTWC scale, a system is classified as a super typhoon when the average sustained wind speed in 1 minute reaches at least 240 km/h.
Ba Vi has maintained super typhoon intensity for 78 consecutive hours, becoming the longest-lasting super typhoon in the western Pacific region (WPAC) since Super Typhoon Yutu in 2018.
Currently, Super Typhoon Ba Vi is 809km southeast of Kadena 1 airbase and has moved northwest at a speed of 30 km/h in the past 6 hours.
It is forecast that the storm's path will continue in a northwest direction during the forecast period. This path will bring the center of Typhoon Ba Vi to the northeast of Taiwan (China) before making landfall in eastern China.
US storm forecasters predict that in the next few days, when Typhoon Ba Vi interacts with the mainland in Taiwan (China) and makes landfall in eastern China afterwards, Typhoon Ba Vi will dissipate quickly.
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