Typhoon Saomai bringing heavy rainstorms to east China
9/8/2006 14:27
Heavy rainstorms brought by Typhoon Saomai will hit the coastal and
southern parts of east China's Zhejiang Province, the provincial meteorological
observatory has forecast.
Heavy rains will hit Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo and
the eastern part of Lishui in Zhejiang from Wednesday night till Friday, with
winds gusting 70 to 120 km per hour, said the observatory.
The center of
Saomai, the name of the planet Venus in Vietnamese, was located at sea 1,000 km
east-southeast of Wenzhou, with wind speeds of up to 144 km per hour at 5:00
a.m. Wednesday.
The typhoon is still gathering strength and its center is
moving northwest at a speed of 25 to 30 km per hour, said the
observatory.
The observatory warned of possible landslides and mud-rock flows
in the mountainous areas of the province and advised all vessels to return
immediately to harbor.
Typhoon Saomai, the eighth to hit China this year, is
expected to make landfall Thursday afternoon or night between central Zhejiang
and the northern coastal area of neighboring Fujian Province.
Another
tropical storm, Bopha, 1,000 km behind Saomai, is moving westward toward China
at a speed of 20 km per hour, according to the local meteorological observatory
of Fujian.
Xinhua
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