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Cooler weather as flood season starts

SHANGHAI entered the annual flood season yesterday.

The city can expect cooler temperatures and more rain this week. Today’s maximum will be 29 degrees Celsius with cloudy and overcast skies. A thunderstorm is expected on Sunday.

Indeed, thunderstorms will become a “frequent guest” to the city through the flood season that ends on September 30, the city’s weather bureau said yesterday.

Forecasters say this year’s plum rain season will be longer and more intense than last year with three typhoons forecast to hit the city. There will also be more hot days this summer.

The flood-prevention authority has finished a four-month inspection of local levees and mapped 97 places across the city with a high risk of being flooded during the coming season. A list of officials in charge of flood prevention across the city, along with their telephone numbers, was publicized yesterday.

The city is forecast to endure 22 to 28 days with temperatures exceeding 35 degrees over the flood season, compared to 15 such days last summer. The extreme high temperature could reach 40 degrees, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau said.

Rain totaling about 800 millimeters is forecast during the season, compared with an average of 684 millimeters in previous years, the weather bureau said.


 

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