Emergency management departments in Zhejiang Province last night were preparing for the arrival of Typhoon Nabi - only days after another storm killed more than 70 people and caused billions of yuan worth of property damage in several eastern provinces.
Heavy rain and wind gusts above 100 kilometers an hour were expected from today through Wednesday along Zhejiang's central and northern coastal areas.
Shanghai forecasters said Nabi will bring the city cloudy, cooler weather during the early part of the week.
Showers were predicted for tomorrow along with wind gusts in coastal areas that could top 60 kilometers an hour.
Today's high should be 29 degrees Celsius and the low around 23, the city's weather bureau said.
Tomorrow's temperatures should range between 24 and 30 degrees. And for the rest of the week, highs will be around 32 and lows 26, forecasters said. Wednesday and Thursday are expected to brighten up with sunny skies and a few clouds.
Meanwhile yesterday, authorities in areas stricken by Typhoon Talim late last week and over the weekend were counting casualties and assessing property damage.
Torrential rains and landslides caused by the typhoon killed at least 53 people in east China's Anhui Province over the past four days, a provincial official said yesterday.
Heavy flows of mud and rocks destroyed nearly 80,000 homes and damaged more than 130,000 hectares of crops, according to the official with the Anhui Provincial Disaster Relief Office. Some 168,100 people were evacuated from the storm's path.
Typhoon Talim pounded east China's Fujian Province last Thursday afternoon with winds above 120 kph, forcing the evacuation of 479,000 people and the closing of schools, roads and airports.
In neighboring Zhejiang, at least 14 people were killed by the storm.
Nearly 12,000 houses were knocked down, and economic losses were estimated at 3.42 billion yuan. In Jiangxi Province, rain, flooding, landslides and the breach of a river embankment caused by Talim claimed five lives and left eight people missing.
More than 7,000 houses and 210,000 hectares of crops were destroyed. Economic losses were estimated at 1.7 billion yuan.
Heavy rain also caused the breach of an embankment on Jiangxi's Liaohe River yesterday afternoon, leaving two people missing.