The authorities ordered the closure of some parks and tourist areas, suspended construction works and canceled classes in schools
Shanghai’s Chinese metropolis removed more than 280,000 people until 10:00 (03:00 in Lisbon) on Wednesday, due to the passage of Typhoon Co-May, the eighth of this season, which hit the east coast of China.
In Shanghai, several districts raised their alert levels and, according to numbers cited by the local Yicai News Portal, the number of people taken from their residence areas exceeds 280,000.
The authorities ordered the closure of some parks and tourist areas, suspended construction works and canceled classes in schools.
The city dawned today with heavy rainfall, with the local weather observatory warned that accumulated rainfall could exceed 100 millimeters (mm) over the next 24 hours.
The co-may typhoon hit the east coast of China, where it is expected that in the next few hours, already degraded the tropical storm, continue to move northwest over the Chinese territory.
The storm hit the city of Zhoushan (East Zhejiang Province) around 4:30 am local time (21:30 on Tuesday in Lisbon) with winds of 23 meters per second in its center, according to the China Meteorological Center.
Co-May, who will leave intense rain on his way, was at 08:00 places today (01:00, in Lisbon) to 154 kilometers southwest of Shanghai and moves northwest at 17 kilometers per hour.
Zhejiang’s provincial authorities have already raised the emergency response level from 4 to 3 (the maximum level is 1).
According to the Zoom.Earth atmospheric phenomena monitoring platform, Co-May will directly pass the city throughout this afternoon with tropical storm category and winds up to 75 km/h. Then you should continue to go to the northwest and will pass tropical depression on Thursday morning.
The alerts are also active today in the city due to the possible impact of a tsunami after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred on the East Russian Kamchatka peninsula.
Shanghai suffered in September last year his strongest typhoon since 1949, which left two dead in the neighboring province of Jiangsu.
The current tuft season in the country has been marked by strong impact phenomena, such as Wipha, who left heavy rains and forced evacuations in the south, and Wutip, which affected more than 180,000 people in Canton (south) after a delay of more than two months compared to the usual start of the season, attributed by experts to unusual high -pressure patterns and changes in mono.
