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Super Typhoon Chan-hom: More than 865,000 people evacuated in eastern China as storm approaches
10
July, 2015
More
than 865,000 people have been evacuated in eastern China, as Super
Typhoon Chan-hom barrels towards Shanghai after lashing Japan's
Okinawa island chain and Taiwan.
The
powerful storm could be the strongest typhoon to strike Zhejiang
province, just south of Shanghai, since 1949, China's National
Meteorological Centre (NMC) said.
The
storm left five people dead in the Philippines earlier in the week
and injured more than 20 people in Japan on Friday as strong winds
uprooted trees and battered buildings, the Tokyo Broadcasting System
broadcaster reported.
Four
people were also injured by falling trees in Taiwan when the storm
buffeted the island on Friday.
Early
on Saturday morning the storm was 235 kilometres south-west of
Zhenjiang province and continued to gain pace as it travelled towards
land, the NMC said.
Super
Typhoon Chan-hom's expected path would see it pass just to the east
of the financial metropolis of Shanghai, after it makes landfall to
the south of the city bringing with it winds of up to 210 kilometres
per our.
PHOTO: Typhoon
Chan-hom (centre left) lashes Japan's Okinawa island chain as it
pushed towards Taiwan and onto China.(AFP: Japan Meteorological
Agency)
In
addition to the large-scale evacuations, nearly 30,000 fishing
vessels have returned to harbour in Zhenjiang after waves reached up
to 10 metres high off the coast, the provincial weather centre said,
according to the state news agency Xinhua.
Several
cities in the province were already reporting heavy rain and strong
gales, the weather centre added, and Shanghai issued a typhoon alert
on Friday, Xinhua reported.
"The
upcoming typhoon seems very powerful. We have sealed all our windows
and doors and have stored food," said Liu Yimin, a villager in
coastal Huagang village, according to Xinhua.
People
in coastal fishing farms in Fujian province to the south of Zhenjiang
were also asked to evacuate on Friday morning when the NMC first
issued a red alert — the highest level — for the super typhoon.
The
typhoon is the second storm to hit China in two days after severe
tropical storm Linfa made landfall on the coast of southern Guangdong
province.
Hot
on the heels of Chan-hom, Typhoon Nangka is swelling over the Pacific
Ocean and is expected to travel north-west towards Japan's Ryukyu
Islands in the coming days.
The
Japan Meteorological Agency described the intensity of the storm as
"very strong".
Super-typhoon
with 200km/h winds prompts evacuation of tens of thousands of people,
cancellation of trains and flights, and closing of seaside resorts
July
11, 2015. ALTOGETHER, 7 SYSTEMS, 3 NAMED, ARE PRESENTLY COOKING IN
THE WARM PACIFIC WATERS...ALL HEADING WESTWARD. AFTER LEAVING 16 DEAD
ON OKINAWA, TYPHOON CHAN-HOM PASSED BY NORTHERN TAIWAN LAST NIGHT
WITH HOWLING WINDS AND LASHING RAIN ON ITS WAY TO SE CHINA. BY
THURSDAY, SOUTHERN JAPAN WILL RECEIVE ITS SECOND BASHING WITH THE
ARRIVAL OF SUPER TYPHOON NANGKA...JUST AS CHAN-HOM'S WINDS WILL BEGIN
TO AFFECT JAPAN FROM THE WEST AS THAT STORM SYSTEM EXITS THE SHANGHAI
AREA, POSSIBLY INTENSIFYING ONCE OVER WATER AGAIN. 'POST-TS' ELA WILL
BRING STORMY CONDITIONS TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS OVER THE COMING DAY
OR TWO AS IT PASSES TO THE NORTH ON ITS WESTWARD SLOG
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