The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) says it will issue a T3 storm signal at 2.40pm on Wednesday, and will have to wait and see whether a higher storm

Local winds will strengthen later today with winds offshore and on high ground occasionally reaching gales,’ forecaster says.

Hong Kong has issued its T3 typhoon warning for the second time within a week as Tropical Cyclone Toraji approached the territory.

This is the dramatic moment a villager was rescued from a flood spawned by Typhoon Toraji in the Philippines. The man had reportedly been walking on the banks of the swollen Cagayan River when the ground beneath him gave way in Amulung town,

Devastating floods struck the northern Philippines on Monday, when Tropical Storm Toraji became the fourth tropical storm to hit the island nation in three weeks.

Rescuers of Task Force Lingkod Cagayan-Quick Response Team in the Philippines pulled the man from the Cagayan River in northeastern Philippines. (Courtesy: Cagayan Provincial Information Office)