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Storms put pressure on air, rail services
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STORMY weather forced the cancellation of more than 180 flights and delays to around 170 at Shanghai’s Hongqiao and Pudong airports yesterday.
The Air Traffic Management Bureau issued a red alert, the highest, for both airports at 11:30am.
Hongqiao canceled around 100 flights in the afternoon and about 80 were delayed. Even after the rain stopped, low clouds affected takeoff and landing, the Shanghai Airport Authority said.
At 4pm, Pudong airport said about 50 flights had been delayed for more than four hours. It was advising passengers to call airlines for information.
Seven train services were canceled yesterday while another two won’t run today due to rainstorms in east China’s Anhui Province, Shanghai’s city’s railway bureau said.
Yesterday’s cancellations were the K155 from Nanjing to Kunming, T154/1 from Taizhou to Guangzhou, K36/3 from Suzhou to Shenzhen, K1191 from Nanjing to Nanning, K782/3 from Shanghai to Yingtan, K255 from Hefei to Shenzhen West, and K311/0 from Hefei to Guangzhou East.
Today’s cancellations are the K1652/3 from Hangzhou to Zhengzhou, and K614/1 from Lianyungang east to Nanchang.
The authority, which is also in charge of rail operations in neighboring Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, said 16 high-speed train services suffered minor delays yesterday.
The plum rain belt is set to give way to a subtropical high from tomorrow, bringing sunnier skies back, forecasters said yesterday.
Today will be mainly cloudy with scattered showers in the afternoon and temperatures climbing to 32 degrees Celsius.
A mixture of sun and clouds will be the norm from tomorrow until Thursday with temperatures rising to 35 degrees.
The dry and cloudy conditions will continue to Friday morning but a few afternoon thundershowers are expected.
This year’s first typhoon, Nepartak, formed at 8am yesterday over the northwestern Pacific. It is expected to keep moving northwest toward Taiwan and east coast of China’s mainland but will have little influence before Wednesday.
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