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Asia Pacific|Tropical Storm Pulasan Nears Shanghai, Days After Typhoon Hit City
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/world/asia/tropical-storm-pulasan-shanghai.html
Pulasan was expected to make landfall near the Chinese financial hub by Friday morning. Forecasters warned of potential floods and landslides.
Sept. 19, 2024, 2:26 a.m. ET
Tropical Storm Pulasan was heading toward Shanghai on Thursday, three days after the strongest typhoon to hit the Chinese financial hub in 75 years brought the city to a standstill.
Pulasan grazed southern Japan early Thursday, setting off landslide warnings in Okinawa, the largest island in the country’s southern archipelago. As it moved northwest toward China, it was packing maximum sustained winds of about 46 miles per hour, nearly 30 m.p.h. below hurricane strength, according to the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
The slow-moving storm was expected to make landfall near Shanghai, a city of about 25 million people, late Thursday or early Friday, bringing strong winds and up to two inches of rain per hour in some areas. China’s National Meteorological Observatory issued a severe weather alert on Thursday, and some local forecast offices near Shanghai warned of the potential for dangerous floods and landslides.
After striking eastern China, the storm could boomerang into the East China Sea, move along the southern coast of South Korea and approach one of Japan’s main islands, forecasters said. There was also a chance that the storm could dissipate in eastern China.
Source: National Hurricane Center All times on the map are Japan time. Map shows probabilities of at least 5 percent. The forecast is for up to five days, with that time span starting up to three hours before the reported time that the storm reaches its latest location. Wind speed probability data is not available north of 60.25 degrees north latitude. By William B. Davis, John Keefe and Bea Malsky
Typhoon Bebinca, the storm that hit Shanghai on Monday, forced the cancellation of flights at its two international airports, the closure of major tourist attractions and the shutdown of several train and bus routes.
Bebinca damaged four houses, felled more than 10,000 trees and flooded 800 acres of farmland in Shanghai, according to China Central Television, the national broadcaster. It also left at least two people dead in Kunshan, west of Shanghai, the broadcaster reported.
John Yoon is a Times reporter based in Seoul who covers breaking and trending news. More about John Yoon
