Typhoon Ragasa Nears China Coast After Lashing Hong Kong

Hong Kong has weathered the worst of Super Typhoon Ragasa, which is moving away from the financial hub and is set to cross China’s southern coast later Wednesday, where it’s expected to dump torrential rain.

The storm was packing top sustained winds of 175 kilometers (109 miles) per hour as of 3 p.m. local time, according to the weather bureau. The system has weakened slightly and is now a severe typhoon, but is still equivalent to an extremely dangerous Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.