The storm, with winds of more than 170kmh near its eye, had been downgraded from a super typhoon to a strong typhoon on Sunday evening and was expected to gradually weaken, Shanghai city authorities said in a post on their official WeChat account.The province of Zhejiang near Shanghai raised its emergency response to the highest level on Sunday, closing schools and suspending flights and rail services in some cities, the official Xinhua news service reported.
In Shanghai, home to about 26 million people, all flights at the city's larger Pudong International Airport were to be cancelled from 11am local time, while flights from the smaller Hongqiao airport in the west of the city were to be cancelled from 3pm, the Shanghai government announced on WeChat. The city also suspended subway services on some lines serving the city's southern districts, and said that parks, outdoor tourist attractions and playgrounds would be closed on Monday and Tuesday.Official forecasts called for rainfall of 250mm to 280mm in some areas of south-eastern Jiangsu province, Shanghai and north-eastern Zhejiang.
Taiwan downgraded Typhoon Chanthu to a medium typhoon on Saturday. The storm did not make direct landfall on the island.
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