At least four people lost their lives as floods swamped cities in the densely populated Pearl River Delta in China.
Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, received a cumulative rainfall of 60.9cm this month, the highest monthly rainfall since record-keeping began in 1959., the country’s highest-level red rainstorm warning was issued for parts of Guangdong and Shenzhen. As per the city’s meteorological observatory, the target areas experienced ‘heavy to very heavy downpours’ and warnings added a ‘very high’ risk of flash floods.
The neighbouring Jiangxi province also suffered extensive flooding, resulting in 459 people being evacuated. The rains affected 1 500 hectares of crops and caused more than $5.7 million in financial losses. Guangdong, which is prone to summer floods, experienced its heaviest downpours in six decades in June 2022, when hundreds of thousands of people had to be evacuated.
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