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Tropical storm Songda to menace China's eastern cities but spare Shanghai
Chinese weather forecasters on Saturday (July 30) said a tropical storm threatening to hit Shanghai was now very likely to miss the financial hub, but warned of wind gusts and downpours in eastern industrial cities as it churned northwards off the coast.
The National Meteorological Center said, Songda was 450 km (280 miles) east of Qidong city, Jiangsu province, just north of Shanghai on Saturday morning, and was expected to move on a northwest path at 20 kph, the Reuters reported.
Gales in coastal areas from the northeastern part of the heavily industrialised Zhejiang province to Shanghai and the southern part of Jiangsu province were forecast to reach magnitudes of 6-7, a level that will rock power lines and impede pedestrian traffic.
The winds in some parts of the sea could be stronger, the forecasters said, in a region known for busy shipping lanes.
It added that Songda, named after a river in Vietnam, is also expected to bring moderate to heavy rains to those areas from Saturday to Sunday.
The storm is expected to weaken on Monday, turning into a tropical depression in the Yellow Sea near the Korean Peninsula.
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tropical storm is an organized centre of low pressure that originates over warm tropical oceans.
The maximum sustained surface winds of tropical storms range from 63 to 118 km (39 to 73 miles) per hour.
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