BEIJING — China’s National Meteorological Centre (NMC) on Wednesday evening issued a red alert for typhoon Yagi, which is expected to bring strong wind and heavy rain to the country’s southern regions.
China Meteorological Administration has upgraded the emergency response for the typhoon from level-IV to level-II.
Typhoon Yagi will move northwest at a speed of about 10 km per hour, with gradually increasing intensity, the NMC forecasted, adding that it is expected to make landfall along the coastal areas from Qionghai in Hainan to Dianbai in Guangdong on Friday afternoon.
Following the typhoon, gales are expected to batter the Taiwan Strait, the Bashi Channel, most parts of the South China Sea as well as parts of the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong from Wednesday evening to Thursday evening, the NMC said, Xinhua news agency reported.
In the meantime, heavy rainfall is expected to hit parts of the Taiwan Island, the coastal areas of Guangdong and the Hainan Island, according to the centre.
China has a four-tier, color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
Three dead, one injured in China landslide
BEIJING — Three people were found dead and one injured after a landslide toppled a house on Wednesday morning in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, according to local authorities.
The torrential rain-triggered landslide occurred at around 4 am in Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, and the injured was sent to the hospital for treatment, according to the county’s emergency management bureau.
Rescue and on-site dredging works are underway, Xinhua news agency reported.
According to the Qinghai Meteorological Bureau, the province experienced its strongest rainstorms since meteorological records began in 1954. The daily precipitation of 34 provincial meteorological observation stations exceeded the historical extremes.
The province’s highest precipitation of 133.8 millimeters was recorded at the observation station of Niangniang mountain in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County in Xining City.
