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Typhoon leaves, Metro and air traffic back to normal while city will enter hottest season of year tomorrow
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THE city will have several days of cloudy weather with the mercury soaring to 33 degrees Celsius next week after Typhoon Chan-Hom moved away from the city, forecasters said today.
The Shanghai Meteorological Bureau lifted an orange typhoon alert, the second highest of four levels, at 6am today due to weakened wind. It lifted a yellow alert (the third highest of four levels) for the torrential rain at 10:28pm yesterday.
Metro Line 16, which was suspended from 1pm yesterday, has resumed normal operation. Metro Line 2, which ran at limited speeds between the Guanglan Road Station and Pudong International Airport Station yesterday, was also back to normal this morning.
Flights cancelled yesterday due to typhoon impact are gradually resuming normal operation this morning at two local airports.
China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines said 132 flights canceled yesterday were rescheduled for today.
Heavy downpour brought by Typhoon Chan-Hom battered the city since Friday night with the suburban Jinshan District receiving the maximum rainfall, recording 116.2 millimeters between 8pm on Friday and 8am today, followed by the benchmark Xujiahui Station, which had 94.3mm of rainfall, according to the bureau.
The suburban Fengxian District had the biggest wind, reaching 21 meters per second.
At 6am, Chan-Hom was 180 kilometers northeast of Shanghai and was moving north-east at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour.
It will gradually weaken and approach the Korean Peninsula, according to the National Meteorological Center.
Today should be overcast to cloudy with drizzles, and the temperature ranges between 24 degrees as a low and 28 degrees as a high.
Tomorrow, Shanghai will enter what is considered the hottest period of the year, known in Chinese as sanfu - three consecutive summers - on the Chinese lunar calendar.
The period will last 40 days.
It will be cloudy till Thursday, the bureau said.
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