A woman buys groceries as empty shelves are seen at a supermarket in Shenzhen, in southern China's Guangdong province, on September 22, 2025, ahead of the landfall of Typhoon Ragasa. Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images

A huge and powerful typhoon is headed toward southern China after lashing the Philippines with destructive winds and torrential rain, putting the region’s megacities on high alert with cancelled flights and disruptions to schools and businesses.

Tens of millions of people could be impacted by the storm, which is expected to pass south of the major cities of Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, before making landfall again in mainland China’s Guangdong Province.

Typhoon Ragasa hit the northern Philippines as the strongest storm on earth so far this year, after generating

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