The Meteorology Observatory of east China's Fujian Province issued early warning as
"Pabuk", the seventh tropical storm this year, approached on
Tuesday morning.
Pabuk started on the Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines on
Sunday afternoon. The eye of the storm, with speeds of 108 km per
hour, was at 22 degrees north and 125.3 degrees east at 8:00 AM on
Tuesday, according to the provincial meteorological
observatory.
The Fujian Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief
headquarters forecast that Pabuk will hit on Taiwan at noon on
Wednesday, and then make landfall in Fujian Province sometime from
late Wednesday to Thursday afternoon, accompanied by torrential
rains.
The headquarters issued a circular instructing local governments
to evacuate the elderly and kids from children from ship to shore
before 6:00 PM on Tuesday.
Neighboring Zhejiang Province and Guangdong Province have also issued circulars
urging officials to prepare for the storm, which is expected to
sweep the above provinces from late Wednesday to Thursday
afternoon.
Many parts of Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong have been
experiencing temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius for more than
ten days. In Fuzhou, capital of Fujian, rainstorms on Saturday
brought an end to 36 days of high temperature.
(Xinhua News Agency August 7, 2007)
