Typhoon Doksuri, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Egay, was a powerful typhoon that caused extensive damage in the Philippines, Taiwan, and China, in late-July 2023. It was the fifth named storm and third typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season. Doksuri started as a low pressure area in the Philippines, far off the coast of Mindanao. It rapidly intensified into a typhoon over the Philippines prior to making landfall over the Babuyan Islands. Together with the southwest monsoon, Doksuri showered most of northern and central Luzon with heavy rains, triggering floods in various regions of the country. Doksuri steadily weakened after interacting with land, but by late on July 27, Doksuri underwent another round of rapid intensification in the South China Sea. Doksuri moved towards Fujian, China, before rapidly weakening overland.
Doksuri brought heavy rainfall to several regions in northern China, including Beijing. Thousands of people were evacuated from Beijing as Typhoon Doksuri pummeled Northern China. The typhoon made landfall in China’s southeastern coast and Taiwan on Friday, state weather agencies said. After lashing the Philippines and Taiwan where it caused dozens of deaths and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate, it swept into China’s southeastern Fujian province on Friday, bringing heavy rain and violent gusts of wind that shook power lines, uprooted trees and forced factories and shopping centers to shut.
