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Typhoon Khanun, the sixth typhoon of this year, may strengthen into a super typhoon, China's National Meteorological Center said on Monday.
With a wind speed of 173 kilometers per hour, the typhoon was reported to be about 600 kilometers southeast of Naha, the prefectural capital of Japan's Okinawa. It was moving northwest at 15 to 20 kilometers per hour.
The typhoon was previously expected to make landfall on the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province between the evening of Tuesday to the morning of Wednesday, however, due to the variable path of the typhoon, it is now expected to enter the East China Sea on Wednesday evening, gradually deflecting north and slowing down significantly.
Due to the complex path of Typhoon Khanun, where it will land remains uncertain.
Fishing boats return to port as Typhoon Khanun gets closer to Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, China, July 30, 2023. /CFP
Zhejiang launched a Level 4 emergency response, the lowest in China's four-tier emergency response system, on July 30.
Meteorological experts expected storm tides to hit coastal areas of the province from Monday to Thursday due to the impact of Typhoon Khanun, with tides along some sections of the coast surging higher than the alert level.
As of 12 p.m. on July 30, 60 ferry routes in the province and 260 water-related engineering projects along the coast have been suspended. Also, the province postponed the start of the fishing season, which was scheduled for August 1, until the typhoon subsides.
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