With more than 100 evacuated, Shanghai faces its second typhoon

With 112,000 evacuated, Shanghai faces the passage of the typhoon Pulasan, the second to hit the city this week, after Bebinca, the most powerful to hit the city since 1949.

Pulasan weakened into a tropical depression last night, packing winds of around 55 km/h and heavy rainfall that caused flooding in several areas of the city, according to storm tracking platform Zoom.earth.

Evacuees from Shanghai

More than 300 schools were closed on Friday, leaving some 280,000 students without classes, with dozens of train and ferry services suspended and more than twenty flood monitoring points exceeding alert levels.

Heavy rains hit the city starting at 2:00 a.m. local time (18:00 GMT Thursday), with average rainfall of 73.28 millimeters (mm), reaching over 300 mm at some weather stations over a six-hour period.

In recent weeks, China has been hit by typhoons Yagi and Bebinca, the former causing two deaths in its wake in the south of the country and the latter causing “significant damage,” according to local authorities: more than 30,000 homes were left without electricity in Shanghai and the city’s two airports were forced to cancel hundreds of flights.

(With information from EFE)

With hundreds of people evacuated, Shanghai continues to be hit by heavy rain.

Shanghai in the wake of the second typhoon.

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