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Airport and aviation officials are set to stop all flights from as early as 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) on Tuesday till 6 a.m. on Thursday as Super Typhoon Ragasa advances, the report added.
A spokesperson for Airport Authority Hong Kong said it is closely monitoring the developments regarding Ragasa and has commenced preparations to deal with the super typhoon.
An official announcement is expected to happen on Monday and the Hong Kong Observatory plans to hoist its first precautionary signal for the storm around noon, according to the report.
The Civil Aviation Department did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Super Typhoon Ragasa is forecast to move into the East Sea late Monday evening with sustained winds of 202–220 kph.
According to Vietnam's National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the storm was about 230 km from Luzon Island in the Philippines on Monday morning, with maximum winds of 221 kph, moving west-northwest at 20 kph.
By early Tuesday morning, Ragasa is expected to be in the northern East Sea (South China Sea) with sustained winds of 202–220 kph, maintaining its track and speed and possibly strengthening. By 1 a.m. Wednesday, the storm is forecast to be about 490 km east of China's Leizhou Peninsula with winds of 184–220 kph. A day later, it should be over waters east of the peninsula with winds easing to 150–183 kph, before turning west-southwest into the Gulf of Tonkin.
Japan's Meteorological Agency expects landfall on the Leizhou Peninsula before the system moves into the Gulf of Tonkin, while Hong Kong Observatory's forecast has landfall along Guangdong's coast, then a shift toward Leizhou and into the Gulf.
