The latest storm news from Reuters said that Typhoon Gaemi hit urban areas in China's coastal province of Fujian on July 26, causing heavy rain and strong winds.
Typhoon Gaemi - the strongest storm to hit China this year - began moving into the country's densely populated interior. So far, the storm has affected nearly 630,000 people in China's Fujian, nearly half of whom had to be displaced, Xinhua news agency reported.
Typhoon No. 3 Gaemi has winds of up to 100.8 km/h near the center of the storm, slightly down from the 118.8 km/h recorded on the night of July 25 when it landed in Fujian's Putian city.
Although super typhoon Gaemi has been downgraded to a tropical storm due to slower wind speeds, the storm's wide cloud bands still pose a significant flood risk, especially for rivers in central China that There is high water due to summer rain.
Hours before Typhoon Gaemi made landfall, the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China headed by President Xi Jinping held a special meeting on flood control and called on officials across The whole country protects people's lives.
Xinhua News Agency quoted information from the meeting as saying that efforts should be made to prevent dam failures in large rivers and large and medium-sized reservoirs.
Due to Typhoon No. 3 Gaemi, 72 municipalities across Fujian recorded cumulative rainfall exceeding 250 m, with the highest rainfall reaching 512.8 mm, according to local weather forecasting agencies.
By the end of July 26, storm Gaemi made landfall in Jiangxi province, where China's largest freshwater lake Poyang is located.
Storm forecasters warned that up to 10 provinces in China could be affected by Typhoon Gaemi, including Henan - a province with a population of more than 100 million people in central China.
The weather forecasting agency of Ha Nam province expects storm No. 3 Gaemi to start causing rain from the night of July 26.
It is forecast that next week, the impact of this No. 3 storm will spread far north to Jilin and Liaoning provinces - two places that are being affected by rising river levels and flooded cities after a series of strong storms. few days ago.
Earlier this week, Typhoon Gaemi claimed dozens of lives as it swept through Taiwan (China) and made the monsoon in the Philippines worse.
On July 25, Typhoon Gaemi flooded several cities and towns in Taiwan (China), injuring more than 700 people and killing 7 people as well as sinking a cargo ship off the island's coast. This. Taiwanese (Chinese) officials informed that rescue forces pulled nearly 1,000 people out of flood waters using pontoon boats.
In the Philippines, Typhoon Gaemi claimed the lives of 32 people, the capital Manila declared a "state of disaster" after widespread flooding. An oil tanker carrying industrial fuel also sank in rough seas off the coast of the Philippines due to the impact of Typhoon Gaemi.
