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Rains set to pour across the country
By Liang Chao/Jiao Xiaoyang (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-03 05:45
Heavy rains are expected to lash most parts of the country over the next
week, and later this month three tropical storms are forecast to hit coastal
areas, a senior weather official warned yesterday in Beijing.
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| Parents accompany their children to receive drip infusions
yesterday in Xuchang County, Central China's Henan Province. The hot
weather has caused some children to develop respiratory infections, colds
and even pneumonia. The number of patients, most of them children, has
kept rising along with scorching temperatures across the country.
[newsphoto] | Wang Bangzhong, deputy director of
forecasting services and the disaster mitigation department of the China
Meteorological Administration (CMA), urged local authorities to be prepared for
damage caused by the bad weather.
"Northeast China will see persistent rain this week, during which heavy rains
are likely to pound areas along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze
River with a chance of rainstorms in some places," he said.
Rainfall may exceed 100 millimetres this month in most of Northeast, North,
Central and East China while the rainfall will be double the average in parts of
Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian and Zhejiang.
"The increased rain is likely to trigger floods and waterlogging in a few
regions of Northeast China and upstream areas of the Huaihe River, where
precipitation will be more than twice the average," he said.
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