Heavy rainfall is expected to continue in Guangxi in the coming days.
BEIJING:
Heavy rain from a typhoon drenched southern China for a seventh day as slow-moving storm clouds drifted from coastal Guangdong to Guangxi, flooding low-lying areas, blocking roads and trapping residents.
In Guangxi region’s rural Bobai province, rescuers on assault boats have been scrambling to get people to safety since Sunday evening, when water more than 2 meters deep stranded residents in low-rise homes, state media reported on Monday.
Heavy rainfall is expected to continue in Guangxi in the coming days.
Haikui has weakened from a typhoon to a tropical storm since making landfall in Fujian province on September 5, but its residual circulation continues to wreak havoc in southern China, with the densely populated city of Shenzhen inundated by the heaviest rain on record measurements began in 1952. Neighboring Hong Kong was hit by the worst storm in 140 years.
Scientists warn that typhoons hitting China are becoming more intense and their paths more complex, raising the risk of disasters even in coastal cities like Shenzhen, which regularly brave tropical cyclones and already have strong water defense capabilities.
“Typhoons that move far inland hit regions that have historically been less exposed to heavy rainfall and strong winds, often with lower disaster resilience, leading to more severe losses,” said Shao Sun, a climatologist at the University of California, Irvine.
“In this case of Shenzhen, the disaster was mainly due to the slow westward movement of the Haikui residual circulation, which almost stagnated in its spatial position from the afternoon of September 7 to the early hours of September 8, and a “train effect” There heavy rainfall occurred, causing the event to exceed expected intensity.”
A so-called ‘train effect’ refers to the cumulative effect of multiple convective cloud systems passing one after the other over an area, resulting in significant accumulation of precipitation accumulation and greatly increasing the likelihood of heavy or even extreme rainfall.
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