The typhoon brought heavy rain to Shanghai as well as the provinces of Anhui and Fujian, besides Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the weather service said.
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The storm briefly made landfall, blasting the coast with winds of about 75 miles per hour and gusts up to 100 miles per hour on Saturday, The Weather Channel reported.
China Eastern Airlines canceled all its flights departing from Shanghai’s two airports befora 6am tomorrow.
A typhoon that battered the Chinese coast has weakened into a tropical storm as it pushes toward the Korean Peninsula, where some South Korean flights were canceled due to strong winds and rain.
The storm grounded 60 domestic flights linking Seoul with the southwestern coastal city of Yeosu and the southern resort island of Jeju, airport authorities said.
A strong wind and rainstorm alert has been issued along South Korea’s southern and western coastal areas, which received up to 291mm of rain. More than a million people have been evacuated from the eastern provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu as the typhoon, the most powerful in decades, makes landfall.
After pounding the coast near Shanghai, killing one person and forcing the evacuation of more than 1 million, a typhoon named Chan-hom spun back out to sea, sparing China’s largest city from destruction, the Weather Channel reported.
Pictures from the region showed smashed greenhouses, flooded irrigation systems and ruined crops.
China’s National Meteorological Centre yesterday downgraded its alert on the typhoon from red to orange, its second-highest warning.
But it issued a rainstorm alert for the provinces of Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang and forecast strong gales in the north of the East China Sea.
We start with weather-related news And Typhoon Chan-hom, that’s since been downgraded to a tropical storm, is now heading north across North Korea and is expected to continue weakening as it passes over Pyongyang later in the day. The stock market and public offices were closed Friday in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital.
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The storm dumped rain on the northern Philippines and Taiwan, where several flights were suspended.
