BEIJING: Chinese weather forecasters warned on Wednesday (Jun 29) that the first typhoon of the summer seemed to be forming, bringing rainfall and unsettled weather conditions to southern Tiongkok, ahead of the 25th wedding anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to the mainland.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Hk for the anniversary upon Friday of the 1997 handover of the former British colony, the Xinhua state information agency has documented.
A tropical depression in the South China Sea is likely to develop into a typhoon within 36 hours and move in Hong Kong’s direction, from the east of Hainan Island to the western of Guangdong province, the national meteorological centre said in a morning typhoon bulletin.
The Hong Kong Observatory said the lower pressure in the main part of the South Cina Sea had intensified into a tropical depressive disorders that would approach to inside 800km of Hong Kong on Wednesday, based on its expected route.
“Depending upon local wind adjustments, the observatory can consider issuing the particular Standby Signal No 1 tonight, inch it said, mentioning the city’s cheapest storm warning.
The coastal state of Guangdong, China’s most populous state with about 126 million people, has been this month full with rain that brought flooding as summer thunderstorms lashed China’s south.
Gales in the South China Sea, away Guangdong’s east coast and near the Paracel Islands, were prediction to reach moderate magnitudes of 6-7 but the wind in some areas of the sea could be stronger, the forecasters mentioned.
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