China renews yellow alert for rainstorms in several regions
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China’s national observatory on Saturday renewed a yellow alert for rainstorms, warning of downpours in some regions of the country.
From 8 a.m. on Saturday to 8 a.m. on Sunday, heavy rain and rainstorms are forecast to hit parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Yunnan, Sichuan, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, the National Meteorological Center said.
The center added that some of these regions are expected to experience brief but heavy rainfall, with maximum hourly precipitation exceeding 90 mm in certain areas, accompanied by thunderstorms and gales.
The center has advised local governments and relevant departments to take precautions, including checking rural and urban drainage systems.
China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
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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.…
