Shanghai, the country’s largest city, was hit by its second typhoon days after it received its strongest storm in 75 years when roads and neighborhoods were flooded on Friday ( Sep 20 ).
Typhoon Pulasan made land on Thursday evening in the state’s Fengxian city, with a peak wind velocity of 83kmh, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
Although downpours continued in the area on Friday day, the storm is “is forecast to gradually diminish as it moves inland,” according to Xinhua.
Although no serious harm or deaths have been reported so far, movies that were posted on social media Friday showed Shanghai people wading through calf-level waters in some neighborhoods.
As the wind made its way toward Shanghai on Thursday, parts of the city’s typhoon call levels increased.
Typhoon Bebinca, which was the biggest storm to strike the megacity since 1949, wreaked havoc on Monday with Pulasan.
Bebinca felled more than 1, 800 branches and left 30, 000 communities without power, with government evacuating more than 400, 000 people across Shanghai ahead of the storm.
According to experts, severe weather is becoming more frequent and intense because of climate change, which is being exacerbated by greenhouse gas emissions.
China produces the most greenhouse chemicals globally, but its per capita emissions are insignificant in comparison to the United States’.