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22:14, 23-Jul-2017
China renews blue alert for Typhoon Sonca
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China's national observatory on Sunday renewed a blue alert for Typhoon Sonca, which is expected to hit southern Hainan Province or the Beibu Gulf.
At 6 p.m. Sunday, the eye of Sonca was above the South China Sea around 235 km to the southeast of Sanya City, Hainan, packing winds of up to 18 meters per second, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) said in a statement.
The NMC forecast it will move northwest to make landfall on Hainan from Monday evening to Tuesday morning or skirt the province entirely and enter the Beibu Gulf en route to the north coast of Vietnam.
Staff workers and fishermen push a fishing boat to safe place in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, July 23, 2017. / Xinhua
Staff workers and fishermen push a fishing boat to safe place in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, July 23, 2017. / Xinhua
Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan provinces will see torrential rain and gales in the coming days.
The NMC suggested local governments take precautions against possible geological disasters and ships in affected areas have been advised to return to port.
China has a four-tier, color-coded system for severe weather, with red being the most serious, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
(Source: Xinhua)