Typhoon Tapah soaks the city
People brave strong winds and rain as Typhoon Tapah hit Shanghai on September 21, 2019.
Typhoon Tapah has brought heavy rain to Shanghai's eastern parts as well as northeastern Zhejiang Province after it entered the East China Sea at 5am on Saturday morning.
According to the National Meteorological Center, Tapah's center was at 27.3 degrees north and 125.3 degrees east, about 700 kilometers south of Jeju Island, South Korea, at 2pm, moving northwards at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour.
The Shanghai Meteorological Bureau issued a blue typhoon alert at 11am for strong gusts in coastal areas until Sunday night. Winds will strengthen in the city on Saturday and start to weaken on Sunday night.
Parts of the city will receive up to 70 millimeters of rain on Saturday and Sunday with the hourly precipitation as much as 30 millimeters.
Next week the cloudy skies will return with the mercury ranging from 19 to 27 degrees Celsius.
As the weather is gets cooler, autumn approaches, officially requiring average daily temperatures at or below 22 degrees for five days in a row.
Generally, Shanghai enters autumn in October 2. In the past decade, the earliest autumn came on September 19, 2011 and the latest on November 15, 2013.
