1st tropical storm of year makes landfall
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TROPICAL storm Hagibis — China’s first of 2014 — landed at 4:50pm yesterday in coastal areas of Shantou City in south China’s Guangdong Province.
Hagibis made landfall on the coast of Shantou, packing gales of 23 meters per second at its eye and bringing with it rainstorms to nearby regions, said the provincial meteorological station.
After escalating from a tropical depression in the South China Sea, Hagibis is expected to bring rainstorms to coastal cities such as Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou in Guangdong.
Local railway authorities yesterday limited the speed of its rail service from Huizhou City to Zhao’an County to about 80 km per hour.
Government authorities in Guangdong have alerted all offshore businesses and workers to suspend their operations.
Neighboring Fujian Province has relocated about 28,000 offshore workers to get them out of the path of the storm.
The weather bureaus of Fujian and Guangdong forecast Hagibis will bring torrential rain to their border region today.
Authorities have also warned fishery workers to anchor their vessels and come ashore.
At 8am yesterday, 7,135 ships based in Fujian’s Zhangzhou City, which is braced for a direct hit by Hagibis, had returned to port or remained there.
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