An aerial drone photo taken on Sept 19, 2024 shows a view of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/Xinhua]
Pulasan, the 14th typhoon of the year as counted by China's meteorological authorities, made a second landfall in Shanghai's Fengxian district on Thursday night, three days after Typhoon Bebinca hit the city.
The typhoon, with a maximum wind force of 23 meters per second near its center, hit Fengxian district at around 9:45 pm after its first landfall earlier the same day in Zhoushan's Daishan county, Zhejiang province, according to the municipal meteorological observatory of Shanghai.
Pulasan is the second typhoon to make landfall in Shanghai this year, following Bebinca, the 13th typhoon of the year and the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Shanghai since 1949, which hit the city's Lin-gang Special Area in Pudong New Area early on Monday morning.
This is the first time in meteorological records that two typhoons have made landfall in Shanghai within four days. Pulasan is also the 12th typhoon to make landfall in Shanghai in the past 75 years.
Pulasan has brought heavy rain and wind with its landfall. The city updated an orange warning for heavy rain and yellow warnings for lightning and high tide early on Friday morning. Some streets and towns in Pudong New Area and Fengxian district issued red alerts for heavy rain and rolled out defensive measures.
With Pulasan moving north and east, Shanghai is seeing a weakening impact. Wind and rain in the city will gradually diminish during the day on Friday, and the temperature will stay between 26 to 32 C.
However, the meteorological department predicts that downpours will make a comeback in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region over this weekend, due to the combination of Pulasan's lingering impact and the cold air from North China on late Saturday.
