"Makar" landed in Wenchang, Hainan, with wind speed exceeding 17! Keep this risk avoidance guide →

According to the Hainan Province Emergency Command Center for Defending Against Typhoon Makar, this year's 11th super typhoon Makar made landfall on the coast of Wengtian Town, Wenchang City, Hainan Province at 16:20 on the 6th. The wind speed was above Level 17 (about 234 kilometers per hour) when it landed.

At present, torrential rain has occurred in most areas of Hainan Island, and some towns have experienced extremely heavy rain. The northern half of Hainan Island is accompanied by strong winds of 13 to 16, and street greening trees have fallen. Some cities and counties on Hainan Island have experienced large-scale power outages. Hainan continues to issue a typhoon level 1 warning and a storm surge red warning, and maintains a level 1 emergency response for flood and wind control .

The meteorological department of Hainan Province predicts that after making landfall, "Makar" will pass through Haikou, Chengmai, Lingao and other cities and counties, and move into the Beibu Gulf in the early morning of the 7th.

At present, Hainan Province has completed the transfer of more than 410,000 people, and some cities and counties are still continuing to evacuate people. All 89 A-level tourist attractions in Hainan Province have been closed, and many roads, bridges and tunnels in the province have implemented temporary closure and traffic control measures.

A typhoon is coming. How to avoid risks?

Indoors

1. Avoid going out as much as possible, check the safety of electrical circuits, gas and other facilities, and secure or take back all movable items outside the house and on the balcony , such as flower pots.

2. Close doors and windows tightly, and use wide tape to form a "M" shape on the windows to reinforce the glass to prevent it from being broken by wind and causing injury.

3. When the center of the typhoon passes, the wind will decrease or stop for a while, but when the eye of the typhoon passes, strong winds will suddenly blow . Do not go out and should continue to stay in a safe place to avoid danger.

4. Typhoons are often accompanied by heavy rains . Be careful to prevent geological disasters such as mountain torrents and mudslides that may be caused by heavy rainfall. Residents living in dilapidated houses and low-lying areas should move to safe areas in a timely manner .

5. Coastal residents should also pay attention to storm surge warnings and evacuate in a timely manner when necessary.

Outdoors

1. When a typhoon strikes, if you are outdoors, you should take shelter in a sturdy building as soon as possible.

2. When walking, you should try to hold on to a fixed object, walk slowly to the side, and bend down to lower your center of gravity .

3. Do not take shelter near temporary structures, billboards, towers, large trees, etc. Be careful of scaffolding, electric poles, air conditioner outdoor units, etc., as these objects may collapse and fall.

4. When driving in strong winds, you should slow down . Tree branches and structures on the roadside may be dangerous. When passing through flooded roads, if the water exceeds half of the tire, do not rush into the water to prevent the vehicle from being flooded.

When preventing typhoons, what misunderstandings should we pay attention to?

01 Only strong typhoons will bring serious disasters, weak typhoons will have little impact?

Regardless of the intensity of a typhoon, we should pay close attention to the disasters it may bring. Under certain conditions (such as the southwest monsoon, cold air or special terrain), a weak typhoon can also cause heavy rainfall, triggering urban waterlogging, mountain torrents, mudslides and other disasters. Therefore, we should pay close attention to typhoon dynamics and be fully prepared.

02 Typhoons only affect coastal areas, and inland areas are relatively safe?

Typhoons not only affect coastal areas, but may also affect inland areas through long-distance heavy rains, etc. Therefore, inland areas should also pay attention to typhoon dynamics and make preparations for prevention.

03 As long as you are not hit by the typhoon, you will be safe?

There is a kind of rainfall that occurs outside the typhoon range but has an intrinsic physical connection with the typhoon, and it is called "typhoon long-distance rainstorm". A large number of observation facts and research results show that typhoon activities not only directly affect the intensity and distribution of precipitation in the southeastern coastal provinces, but also directly or indirectly affect the extreme rainstorm weather in northern and inland provinces of my country.

Many areas that seem to have little to do with typhoons are actually often visited by typhoons with long-distance rainstorms. Much of the precipitation in Yunnan is affected by storms in the Bay of Bengal, and typhoons that land on my country's eastern coast often bring long-distance precipitation to Northeast China and North China. The survey found that 87% of the extreme rainstorm events in Shaanxi were closely related to long-distance typhoons, and most of the extreme rainstorms and rainstorms that caused serious floods in the northeastern side of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other places were affected by long-distance typhoons.

04 Are you safe just by staying indoors and no other measures are needed?

In addition to paying close attention to warning information from the meteorological department, at home, in addition to using wide tape to form a "M" shape on the windows as mentioned above to reinforce the glass, you must also remember to prepare emergency supplies such as flashlights, candles, power banks, drinking water and food, and secure structures that are easily blown by the wind to prevent them from being blown down and injuring people.

05 The typhoon is strong and moves fast?

In everyone's impression, the stronger the typhoon, the faster it moves. In fact, this confuses the two "speeds" of typhoons - the maximum wind speed in the center and the moving speed.

The first type of "speed" - the maximum wind speed at the center of the typhoon , is used to determine the strength of the typhoon; the second type of "speed" - the speed of the typhoon's movement , can be used to predict the time of the typhoon's landing and the amount of rainfall. The movement of a typhoon is mainly affected by large-scale guiding airflows. Even a strong typhoon will not move fast if it encounters a weak guiding airflow, or if there are opposing systems on both sides of the "saddle field" that start a tug-of-war with it, or if multiple typhoons rotate against each other.

06 The removal of warning signals does not mean the elimination of risks!

As the typhoon weakens, the typhoon warning signal will be lifted, but it does not mean that the impact of the typhoon will disappear. The precipitation, strong winds, etc. it brings may also trigger secondary disasters such as floods, mudslides, landslides, urban and rural floods, etc., which require special prevention.

Comprehensive sources: Xinhua News Agency, Central Meteorological Observatory, National Emergency Broadcasting, etc.