11 missing, tens of thousands evacuated as storms strike China’s Guangdong province

11 missing, tens of thousands evacuated as storms strike China's Guangdong province

The weather department’s forecast for” storms and solid winds in Guangdong’s southern waterways,” a stretch of the ocean that borders major cities like Hong Kong and Shenzhen, is expected to continue on Monday.

Nearby regions, including pieces of Fujian, Guizhou and Guangxi, will also be affected by” short-term large rainfall”, the National Meteorological Centre said.

The main effects period of strong convection is anticipated to continue from day to night, it added.

Guangdong state is China’s densely crowded producing homeland, home to around 127 million people.

According to state media reports from Jiangwan, six people were hurt and several were trapped in floods that were caused by heavy rains on Sunday.

Authorities ‘ surveillance video captured images of waterfront homes being ruined by a wall of reddish mud and people huddled in a public activities court that had been soaked.

On Sunday, CCTV reported that landslides as high as 5 were occurring. On Monday night, a warning that 8m above the caution limit may hit in Pearl River rivers.

China is no stranger to severe weather, but subsequent years have seen the nation be stricken by extreme storms, brutal drought, and record-breaking heat.

Extreme weather events are more frequent and intense because of human-emitted house chemicals, which are the biggest emitters in the world.