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RE: Tropical storm Bilis

Blobrana · L

According to the Fujian Provincial Meteorological Observatory, Typhoon Bilis landed in China's eastern Fujian Province on Friday noon.

The typhoon landed in Xiapu County, 220 kilometres northeast of the provinces capital city of Fuzhou, and is heading towards the north-westward at a speed of 15 kilometres per hour.
Recorded wind speed near the centre were 30 meters per second
Other provinces are bracing for the typhoon.

In Fujian, 256,000 people have been evacuated to safe places and 42,000 ships at sea have been called back to port.
In Zhejiang Province, 70,000 people were evacuated and 180,000 ships were called back to shore by 6 a.m. Friday.
Torrential rain hit Zhejiang since Thursday noon. Maximum rainfall reached 184 millimetres in Wenzhou city, southeast of the province.

Blobrana · L

Typhoon Bilis hit Southwestern Japan's Okinawa Prefecture on Thursday morning. The storms path took it over Miyako Island and Ishigaki Island with a maximum wind velocity of 113 kilometres per hour

Bilis reached the area about 130 km south of Ishigaki Island in the Pacific at 23:00 GMT Wednesday (8:00 a.m local time). It is heading northward and is expected to reach Taiwan, China on Thursday night.

Blobrana · L

Tropical storm Bilis, the fourth to threaten China this year, is heading, with a speed of 15 kilometres per hour, northwestwards towards southeast China, The storm has wind speeds near the centre of 18 meters per second.
According to experts with the Chinese provincial meteorological observatory, it may land in Fujian on Saturday.
The tropical storm, with central air pressure of 996 hectoPascals, formed on July 9 in the Pacific, east of the Philippines, located at latitude 13.5 degrees north and longitude 136.8 degrees east, at 2:00 p.m. Monday.

-- Edited by Blobrana at 02:18, 2006-07-18