More rain forecast for week ahead in Shanghai
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The influence of Typhoon Goni brought flooding to parts of the city yesterday — with almost 64 millimeters of rain falling in an hour in some areas.
While the rain eased off in many places last night, some downpours are expected today, said forecasters.
The Shanghai Meteorological Bureau issued a yellow alert for rainstorm — the second lowest of four levels — just before 10am yesterday.
Eastern and southern areas in Pudong New Area were most seriously affected by the outer bands of Goni.
Huinan Town saw 63.9mm of rainfall in an hour — almost a record of the station. It recorded just over 203mm of rainfall between midnight and 2:30pm yesterday.
Juliet Zhu, a resident in the Nanhui area of Pudong, said water flooded up to the first step of the staircase of her residential building.
"I had to roll up my trousers when venturing outside and take extra care when driving as the roads were flooded," Zhu said.
More than 30 streets and over 300 households at 19 residential complexes in Shuyuan Town were flooded.
Suburban Fengxian and Jinshan districts were also affected by the rain.
As of 6pm, 31 flights had been delayed and six were canceled at Shanghai’s two airports.
The rainstorm alert was lifted just after 2:30pm.
Torrential rain is forecast in parts of the city this morning and it will remain cloudy with some further downpours this afternoon, the bureau said.
Temperatures should range between 23 and 26 degrees Celsius, slightly up from yesterday's high of 25 degrees.
Air quality is predicted to be excellent, said the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center.
It will remain overcast for most of the week, with showery spells and stable temperatures, the bureau said.
Tomorrow should see the high temperature rise to around 28 degrees and creep up a further degree on Wednesday.
On Thursday and Friday, the high temperature will reach 30 degrees, said the bureau.
This year’s 40-day sanfu — the hottest days of summer in the Chinese lunar calendar ended at the weekend.
During sanfu the city saw 12 official high temperature days — when the mercury passed 35 degrees. The hottest day was August 4, when temperatures hit 39.2 degrees, said the bureau.
The 12 high temperature days were up on last year’s seven, but barely a third of 2013’s 31 scorching days.
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