Southern China, Hong Kong lashed by heavy rainfall and bracing for more
- Severe storm warnings across Guangdong, with ‘strongest, longest’ rainstorm of the year expected
- In Hong Kong, forecasters warn of more rain and squally thunderstorms in the next two days
Guangdong cities Shenzhen and Qingyuan were among those pounded with heavy rain on Wednesday morning, and emergency officials in Shenzhen and Guangzhou issued storm warnings hours later, saying the weather would deteriorate on Wednesday night and Thursday.
In Hong Kong, forecasters also warned that the city would be battered by more rainfall and squally thunderstorms in the next two days.
“There will be heavy rains tonight and tomorrow,” Chan Pak-wai, acting director of the Hong Kong Observatory, told reporters on Wednesday.
He said a low-pressure trough would bring more unstable weather until early next week, with temperatures expected to drop below 20 degrees Celsius on Monday.
More than 50 cities and towns across Guangdong have issued severe storm warnings, seven of them red – the highest in China’s four-tier emergency alarm system – after meteorologists warned of the year’s “strongest, most extensive and longest” rainstorm hitting this week.