Days after record-smashing rainfall brought suffering, misery, and death to Henan Province and the city of Zhengzhou in central China, the region is now on alert once again from catastrophic rainfall. Typhoon In-Fa has made landfall and has killed 56 so far.
Two hundred million people on China’s coast, including the heavily populated Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Wenzhou, will face landslides, up to a mind-blowing 32 inches of rainfall, infrastructure failure, and suffering on a massive scale. You likely won’t hear about it from the media, you know it’s only the Chinese, and some of us have been programmed to hate them, but you can read about this looming typhoon here until the media comes around to report about it finally.
In, Tokyo where the summer Olympics are underway, athletes have had to endure extreme heat and a surging Covid outbreak and now find themselves in the cone for Tropical Storm Nepartak.
We are witnessing across earth since the summer solstice is not the new normal; this is far worse. We are at the beginning of a new normal that will result in an apocalypse of our own making. Humans have never witnessed anything like it before. I’m freaked, not sure about you.
Rising sea levels flooded the fishing road along the harbor section of the central fishing port in Daishan, East China's Zhejiang Province on Saturday night. The county’s urban construction department had deployed on Saturday and the lower areas of the port area were protected with sandbags to withstand the invasion of sea water.
Typhoon In-Fa, the sixth this year, is expected to make landfall in northern Zhejiang Province and northern Fujian Province on Sunday, the Ministry of Emergency Management said.
As of midnight on Saturday, authorities in Zhejiang Province had opened a total of 10,780 disaster-escape resettlement sites, and more than 100,000 people have been transferred.
In-Fa has added to monsoon rains flooding parts of the Philippines.
A potentially life-threatening flooding impact is likely in China after Sunday this weekend, including the city of Shanghai. About 500 to nearly 800 mm of rain is forecast while Typhoon In-Fa tracks across the Zhejiang province, East China. Extreme rainfall will persist for days and such an amount of rain will be catastrophic for the region. China’s authorities are already shutting down the operation in Shanghai and Ningbo ports. Farther east, a new Tropical storm Nepartak will impact Tokyo Olympics early next week.
After passing over Miyako and Ishigaki Islands as a Category 1 storm on Friday, Typhoon In-fa has grown pretty large this Saturday. Its peak strength of a Category 3 was on Thursday, but the system remains big, with the widespread impact of heavy rains and severe winds. It is now on its way towards East China landfall on Sunday.
Typhoon In-Fa is the 7th tropical cyclone of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season and also the 3rd typhoon, coming after Category 5 Surigae (mid-April) and Category 1 typhoon Champi (late June). The system has formed within pretty favorable weather conditions, thanks to the extremely warm seas over the Western Pacific Basin this summer.
The Zhejiang province is rushing with preparations ahead of a potentially life-threatening impact by In-Fa on Sunday, where an increasing potential of catastrophic floods is likely, including the major port city of Shanghai, China. Storm surge is of major concern for the northern coast of Zhejiang province, as severe winds coming up with Typhoon In-Fa will push water from the East China Sea inland.
Weather models are pointing at some beyond exceptional rainfall amounts along In-Fa’s track from Sunday through Tuesday. There is a very high potential that 500 to 800 mm of rain could accumulate over the next few days. This could bring mudslides and extreme flooding with life-threatening impacts across the large areas along the coast.
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