Typhoon Saomai bringing heavy rainstorms to E China

    HANGZHOU, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Heavy rainstorms brought by Typhoon Saomai will hit the coastal and southern parts of east China's Zhejiang Province, the provincial meteorological observatory has forecast.

    Heavy rains will hit Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo and the eastern part of Lishui in Zhejiang from Wednesday night till Friday, with winds gusting 70 to 120 km per hour, said the observatory.

    BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Packing winds of 126 kms per hour, Typhoon Saomai, the eighth to hit China this year, is likely to slam into the Chinese mainland Thursday afternoon or evening, meteorologists in east China's Fujian Province said Tuesday.

    Saomai, which is the Vietnamese name for the planet Venus, is expected to make landfall near the north coast of Fujian Province and the southern coast of Zhejiang Province Thursday, a spokesman with the Fujian provincial meteorological station said.

Guangdong warned against twin typhoons

    BEIJING, Aug. 9 -- Guangdong may see more rainstorms and fickle weather conditions brought by intertwining typhoons Saomai and Bopha, which are presently separated by a mere 1,000 km, meteorologists said yesterday.

    While Fujian Province, Guangdong's eastern neighbor, is more directly exposed to attacks from the twin typhoons, heavy rains brought by them may deal a new blow to Guangdong, which is still reeling from the destruction caused by previous typhoons like Bilis and Prapiroon.

Fujian on alert against attacks of intertwists of Bopha, Saomai

    FUZHOU, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- East China's Fujian Province is exposed to the attacks of intertwists of two typhoons, Bopha and Saomai, as there is a distance of only 1,000 km between the two, local meteorologists said Tuesday.

    The meteorologists said Typhoon Maria and Saomai and Tropical Storm Bopha, which are moving on the western Pacific, will influence each other and vary their paths frequently, leading to uncertainties. Since Wednesday, they may affect coastal areas of Fujian.

Fujian on alert against attacks of intertwists of Bopha, Saomai

    FUZHOU, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Tropical storm Bopha, the ninth to hit China this year, is approaching China and may make landfall in Fujian Province, according to local meteorological sources.

    Bopha intensified into a strong tropical storm at 8 a.m. Monday morning. At that point it was located at latitude 22.5 north and longitude 129.0 east, 850 kilometers from Taiwan's Taidong County. It was gusting at 90 kilometers per hour and still gathering momentum.

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