Record-setting torrential rain in Beijing! Over 500 mm of rainfall in 24 hours! The weather station data has been interrupted, and the rainstorm is still going on!
Today, two big cities in China, Xi'an and Shanghai, were hit by violent rainstorms. Among them, Shanghai Pudong received 105mm of rainfall in 45min. Xi'an, located in the inland northwest, also experienced 64mm of rainfall in 1 hour, causing severe waterlogging.
Aurora appeared in the vast area north of 40 degrees north latitude in China early this morning! The range and brightness are even greater than that in December 2023!
【Breaking News】 Typhoon yagi has just landed in Hainan. The Baojin Primary School Station in Wenchang recorded a minimum air pressure of 922.0 hpa, breaking the record for the lowest sea level pressure measured on land in China
Moisture brought by the typhoon entered Northeast China, causing severe torrential rain again. Shulan, Jilin Province received more than 560 mm of local rainfall in 48 hours, and floods broke out in the Mudanjiang River Basin.
The Mangtangxi Reservoir in Zhijiang, Hunan Province, suffered the largest flood in local history, and the reservoir was urgently discharging floodwaters.
Ten days ago, Wanzhou in Chongqing was hit by a 261 mm rainstorm for 3 hours. Today, another 230 mm fell, and many parts of the urban area were flooded.
The lowest sea level pressure at Haikou Meteorological Station (59758) is 931.5hpa! This is the lowest measured pressure in a major Chinese city! The maximum gust in the city was 58.6m/s
The typhoon affected 1.45 million people in Fujian and caused an economic loss of 3.045 billion yuan. It was the heaviest typhoon in Fujian since 2016.
The typhoon landed in Shanghai this morning, becoming the strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since 1949. Currently, the gusts in eastern Shanghai have reached 30 to 43.5 m/s, and the center is right in the city!
The coast of Fujian was once again hit by heavy rain. Pingtan broke records with 132mm of rain in 1 hour and 230mm in 3 hours. In the video, the streets become rivers
The floods in Heilongjiang and Jilin are still continuing. The deputy mayor of Shulan City in Jilin was swept away by the flood while fighting the flood and his whereabouts are currently unknown.
An amazing heat wave is about to sweep across China. At present, the temperature is predicted to reach 37-40C, which is the unprecedented super heat wave in October history. China's highest October record was 39C just set last year,and 2022 may challenge the first 40C in October!
On June 29, a refrigerator was washed away by heavy rain and flood in Zhenyuan, Guizhou. Six hours later, the refrigerator was found again in Huaihua, Hunan, more than 120 kilometers away.
The Yangtze River Basin was hit by extreme rainstorms again today, with more than 300,000 km2 receiving more than 100 mm of rainfall in 24 hours, causing floods in many places.
Shenyang, Liaoning, suffered the heaviest rainstorm in meteorological records, with a maximum rainfall of 419 mm in 24 hours, and many places were flooded
The Beijiang River Basin in Guangdong suffered the fourth largest flood in history and the largest flood in April. Many towns along the coast were flooded.
The rainfall in Ningxia, Gansu and Inner Mongolia in northwest China in the past month was 5 to 10 times that of the same period in normal years. The original desert has turned into grassland!
The maximum rainfall in Beijing this time was 744.8 mm, the highest since Beijing had meteorological records in 1860!
(Communications are still interrupted in places with the heaviest rain in the west. I don’t know how much it rained, but it may be close to 1000mm).
The wind tower at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan recorded a gust of 73.8m/s (50m high), and the No. 1 buoy near the coast recorded a gust of 65.8m/s
Nanyang, Henan and Xiangyang, Hubei were hit by record-breaking rainstorms, with rainfall reaching 410 mm in 12 hours and 111.7 mm in 1 hour, causing flooding in many rivers.
The Yalu River, the border river between China and North Korea, has experienced a record flood, with the flow rate approaching 30,000 cubic meters per second! In the video shot in Dandong, China, the North Korean side has been completely submerged.
At 9 p.m. on August 26, Dongying, Shandong was hit by extreme rainstorms. The weather station recorded 145.8 mm of rainfall in 60 minutes, and the city streets were completely flooded.
Zixing, Hunan, was hit by extreme rainstorms, with 679 mm of rainfall in 24 hours, breaking the provincial record. A ship lost control and crashed into a dam.
Northern China was hit by a storm today, with rainfall exceeding 100 mm in six provinces and many places breaking daily rainfall records; Shandong received 151 mm of rainfall in 60 minutes, setting a new record for short-term heavy rain in the province.
Typhoon Haikui continues to penetrate into southern China. Tonight, 188 mm of rain fell in Shatoujiao, Shenzhen in 2 hours, and the streets became rivers.
Beijing was hit by thunderstorms, strong winds and hail this afternoon, with the maximum gusts reaching 37.2m/s. This is the strongest gale Beijing has experienced in the past five years!
Shocking heavy rain in Fuzhou! The rainfall reached 174.7 mm in 1 hour, 23.5 mm in 5 minutes, and 556 mm in 6 hours, breaking the records in Fujian Province!
Typhoon Bebinca penetrated deep into Jiangsu, with the maximum gust in Suzhou reaching 42.1m/s, and wind speeds in many places breaking historical records