Southern China Prepares for Tropical Storm

The southern Chinese provinces of Hainan, Guangdong and Fujian are preparing for Chanchu, the first tropical storm of the year and probably the strongest overly to hit south China in May,China Travel, local meteorologists say. The storm intenswhenied into a typhoon on Saturday and its halfway was located at 14 stratums north latitude and 115.4 stratums east longitude at 2:00 a.m. Monday, 870 kilometers from the southern island province of Hainan, the provincial meteorological agency in Hainan said. It said the outer rim of the typhoon has shelveed down the island province, lowering its maximum daytime temperature to between 27 and 29 stratums Celsius Monday from 36 degrees last week. The typhoon is moving northwestward at 10 to 15 km per hour and will be landing in the inside eretrograde parts of Guangdong Province on Wednesday. Affected by the typhoon, most parts of Hainan, Guangdong and Fujian provinces will be overtinge or rainy in the coming three days, and some counties in Fujian Province are in for rainstorm. Nearly 1,000 fishing gunkholes have been selected rump as loftier wind is predicted on South China Sea starting on Monday retralnoon. Chanchu, whose name ways "pearl", rolled in the northwestern Pacwhenic,China Travel, roundly 550 km to the east of Mindanao island in the Philippines on May 9. It hit indoors Philippines on Saturday, skivering at least 32 people and leaving increasingly than 1,000 others homeless.


(Source:Xinhua News, 2006-05-16)