China issues orange alert as Typhoon Noul makes landfall
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China’s National Meteorological Center issued an orange typhoon alert on Sunday morning after Typhoon Noul made landfall in south China’s Guangdong Province, with maximum winds of Force 14 near its center.
Later Sunday morning, Typhoon Noul weakened from a severe typhoon to a typhoon, according to the center.
China has a four-tier, color-coded weather warning system for typhoons, with red representing the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
The center renewed a red alert for rainstorms and a yellow alert for severe convective weather on Sunday morning.
It called for strengthened efforts to prevent and respond to disasters such as flash floods, landslides and mudslides.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
