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The 2023 Pacific typhoon season was the fourth and final consecutive below-average season and became the third-most inactive typhoon season on record in terms of named storms, with just 17 named storms developing, only ahead of 2010 and 1998.
The China Meteorological Administration recorded wind speeds of 151 kph (94 mph) near the typhoon’s eye when it made landfall, and state media described it as the strongest storm to hit Shanghai ...
The strongest storm to make landfall in Shanghai in recent decades was Typhoon Gloria in 1949, which tore through the city with gusts of 144 kph. Shanghai was last threatened by a direct hit in ...
Packing top wind speeds of 151 kph (94 mph) near its eye, Bebinca landed in the city of nearly 25 million around 7:30 a.m. (2330 GMT), state media reported, the strongest storm to strike Shanghai ...
Part of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season Tropical Storm Sanba was a weak but destructive tropical cyclone which brought heavy rains to Vietnam and South China . The sixteenth named storm of the annual typhoon season , the precursor of Sanba formed as a low-pressure area on October 13, west of the Philippines .
Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in Jinjiang, Fujian, on July 28, then rapidly weakened once inland and dissipated shortly thereafter. [3] [4] Later that afternoon, National Meteorological Center of CMA issued a red alert—the highest level warning for heavy rainfall—this was only the second time a red rainfall warning had been issued—since the warning system was formally implemented in 2010.
19 April – 2023 Beijing hospital fire: Twenty-nine people are killed by a fire in a hospital in Beijing. [8] 13 May – Li Haoshi controversy; 28 May – First flight of the Comac C919, China's first domestically made passenger aircraft, takes place between Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Beijing Capital Airport. [9]
China issued its highest typhoon warning on Thursday as Super Typhoon Saola, packing winds of more than 200 kph (125 mph), headed towards the southeastern coastline, threatening Hong Kong and ...