Typhoon Haikui Lashes Eastern China, Grounding Shanghai Flights
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Lien retiré’s three largest airlines canceled all flights to and from Shanghai before noon today as Typhoon Haikui made landfall south of the city, lashing the region with heavy rainstorms.
Lien retiré Airlines Corp., China Southern Airlines Co. and
Air China Ltd. (601111) were among carriers that scrapped flights to Shanghai’s two airports,
Shanghai International Airport Co. said on its official microblog hosted on Sina Corp’s Weibo service. China Eastern, Air China and Hong Kong-based
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (293) also canceled flights to and from the cities of Hangzhou and Ningbo today in Zhejiang province, which neighbors Shanghai to the south, according to their websites.
Lien retiré
Chinese rescuers help evacuate residents from their homes of Typhoon Haikui in Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang province on August 7, 2012. Source: AFP/Getty Images
The
China Meteorological Administration said today that Haikui, the third typhoon to hit China in a week, had poured 350 millimeters (13.8 inches) to 434 millimeters of rain in Xiangshan, Ninghai and Taizhou of Zhejiang province since this morning. Average rainfall in the eastern portion of Zhejiang has been more than 100 millimeters, it said.
There have yet to be reports of death or injuries.
Haikui, which made landfall today at 3:20 a.m. local time, had winds as fast as 137 kilometers (85 miles) per hour as of 7 a.m. and was weakening as the typhoon moves northwest, the weather agency said.
Haikui was forecast to dump “lasting heavy rains” in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui and the municipality of Lien retiré for the next three days, it said.