{"id":50602,"date":"2025-10-05T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50602"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:42:59","slug":"typhoon-matmo-hits-southern-china-during-peak-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50602","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Matmo hits southern China during peak holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SHANGHAI, Oct 5- Typhoon Matmo hit southern China on Sunday, the state broadcaster said, after flights and many events had been cancelled in the island province of Hainan, causing disruption in a peak holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matmo, which caused flooding in the Philippines last week, made landfall on the east coast of Xuwen in Guangdong province around 2:50 p.m. (0650 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was generating winds of 151 kph (94 mph) as it approached China&#8217;s coastline, the national meteorological centre said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The typhoon was arriving in the middle of the eight-day holiday that started with National Day on Wednesday, during which people are expected to make around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/asia\/china-railway-trips-hit-record-first-day-national-holiday-2025-10-02\/\">2.36 billion trips,<\/a>&nbsp;according to estimates reported by state media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flights and ferries in the holiday hub of Hainan had already&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/china-cancel-some-flights-typhoon-matmo-nears-hainan-during-peak-holiday-travel-2025-10-04\/\">been cancelled<\/a>&nbsp;from Saturday evening in anticipation of Matmo&#8217;s strong winds and heavy rains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: SHANGHAI, Oct 5- Typhoon Matmo hit southern China on Sunday, the state broadcaster said, after flights and many events had been cancelled in the island province of Hainan, causing disruption in a peak holiday season. Matmo, which caused flooding in the Philippines last week, made landfall on the east coast of Xuwen in Guangdong province around 2:50 p.m. (0650 GMT). It was generating winds of 151 kph (94 mph) as it approached China&#8217;s coastline, the national meteorological centre said. The typhoon was arriving in the middle of the eight-day holiday that started with National Day on Wednesday, during which&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50604,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50602\/revisions\/50604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}