Hurricane Buffy ravages buildings and floods roads on the Korean Peninsula

ArabiaWeather - A typhoon swept across the Korean peninsula today, damaging buildings, flooding roads, and knocking utility poles down before weakening into a tropical storm.

The South Korean Meteorological Agency said that no injuries were reported immediately in either South or North Korea, as Typhoon Buffy, which moved to China after passing near the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.

Buffy is accompanied by maximum winds of 133 kilometers (83 miles) per hour when it made landfall early Thursday morning in a coastal region in western North Korea, which is a major source of agriculture and fishing.

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North Korea's Central Television showed footage of felled trees, electricity poles and flooded roads. It reported damage to homes and public facilities in North Huanghai and South Huanghai Provinces, where the typhoon made landfall. Roads were also flooded in Nampo City, the closest to Pyongyang.

In South Korea, Buffy damaged buildings, walls, roads, and other structures

In typhoon-hit South Korea Wednesday, the Home and Safety Ministry reported damage to buildings, walls, roads and other structures.

By Thursday afternoon, electricity was restored to more than 9,300 South Korean homes, more than 470 domestic flights were canceled, South Korean authorities have suspended some rail services, closed public parks and sea bridges, and transported hundreds of fishing boats and passenger ships to safety. .

NASA detects Hurricane Buffy from a million miles away

NASA's Earth Multicolor Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4-megapixel CCD camera and telescope aboard the NOAA DSCOVR satellite in orbit a million miles from Earth, captured a full disk image of the Pacific's northwestern side of the globe. Hurricane Buffy was moving across the Yellow Sea on August 25, 2020 when its photo was taken.

Source: abcnews

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