After slamming into southern China’s coastline with destructive wind and torrential downpour, Typhoon Noul degraded into a tropical storm on Sunday as it pushed further inland across the region. According to Chinese meteorological services, extreme rainfall is still forecast across large swathes of southern Guangdong province and southeastern Fujian province, leaving local authorities on high alert for secondary disasters. As of Sunday, official state news agency Xinhua reported that more than 801,000 Guangdong residents have already been evacuated from high-risk zones to emergency shelters to guarantee their safety. In Hong Kong, the region’s key international transportation hub saw major disruptions to flight schedules. The Hong Kong Airport Authority confirmed that roughly 350 incoming and outgoing flights were scrapped on Sunday alone, leaving approximately 2,000 passengers stranded at the airport over the weekend. Local Hong Kong government data also shows that at least 21 people across the city sustained storm-related injuries during Noul’s passage. To address rising flood risks, Xinhua added that China’s Ministry of Water Resources has elevated its emergency flood response level for at-risk regions including Guangdong, specifically due to the elevated threat of sudden mountain floods triggered by accumulated rainfall. In a post-storm relief move, China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced it has earmarked 100 million yuan, equal to roughly $14.8 million, to fund post-typhoon recovery and reconstruction work across storm-ravaged areas of Guangdong. Noul marks the third typhoon to make landfall in Chinese territory within just a 30-day window, following closely on the heels of earlier tropical cyclones Bavi and Maysak. Chinese state media has also noted that Noul is the strongest storm to hit the country since the start of 2025. The typhoon’s destructive path did not stop at China: as Noul tracked across the Philippines earlier in its trajectory, the Southeast Asian nation’s disaster response agency confirmed at least three fatalities linked to storm-triggered flooding and heavy rain, with hundreds of local residents displaced from their homes. The storm system also dumped heavy rain across parts of Taiwan as it passed just south of the island, never making direct landfall there.