{"id":516,"date":"2025-06-25T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:43:10","slug":"china-reeling-from-floods-braces-for-second-tropical-cyclone-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"China, reeling from floods, braces for second tropical cyclone in two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-5 px-4 md:max-w-[750px] md:px-0 lg:mb-8\">\n<h1 class=\"mt-2 text-[1.625rem] font-bold leading-tight md:text-[2rem]\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">2 min read<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mx-4 md:mx-0\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_minmax(auto,750px)_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<div class=\"mb-5 max-w-[750px]\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<h2 class=\"text-base font-bold text-primary\">China, reeling from floods, braces for second tropical cyclone in two weeks<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-article-mobile md:max-w-[750px] md:grid-cols-article overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"col-body\">\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BEIJING\u00a0 -A tropical depression may hit southern China as early as Thursday, meteorologists cautioned, bringing rain and gales to a flood-hit region still recovering from the impact of Typhoon Wutip two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The tropical depression could make landfall somewhere between the island province of Hainan and Guangdong on the mainland on Thursday morning, China&#8217;s National Meteorological Centre said in an online bulletin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The storm will again test the flood defences of densely populated Guangdong as well as Guangxi and Hunan further inland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated when Wutip tore through the region from June 13 to 15, dumping record rains and damaging roads and cropland. Five people died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">China has battled with summer floods for millennia, but some scientists say climate change is resulting in heavier and more frequent rain. Massive flooding could set off unforeseen &#8220;black swan&#8221; events with dire consequences such as dam collapses, Chinese officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Heavy precipitation caused by typhoons will also aggravate seasonal rainfall from June to July, causing bigger-than-expected floods, Chinese meteorologists say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Wednesday, unusually heavy rains struck Rongjiang in southwestern Guizhou province, half-submerging the city of 300,000 people as fast-rising flood-waters swept away cars, roared into underground garages and malls, and damaged vital infrastructure including its power grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Affected by the rainfall in Guizhou, rivers in Guangxi downstream remained swollen on Wednesday, state media reported, with one waterway more than 9 metres (30 feet) above levels that are considered safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">China&#8217;s economic planning agency in Beijing on Wednesday said it had urgently allocated 100 million yuan ($14 million) to assist disaster relief work in Guizhou, and an additional 100 million yuan to Guangdong and Hunan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">($1 = 7.1715 Chinese yuan renminbi)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Ryan WooEditing by Bernadette Baum)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 min read China, reeling from floods, braces for second tropical cyclone in two weeks BEIJING\u00a0 -A tropical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}