GUANGZHOU: Nuri, the second typhoon this year, landed in south China’s Guangdong Province on Sunday morning, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) said. Nuri landed on Hailing Island in Yangjiang City around 8:50 a.m., becoming the first typhoon to make a landfall in China this year, the NMC said.
Guangdong’s meteorological service said Nuri landed as a tropical storm, packing winds of 82.8 km per hour near its center. It is predicted to track northwest and degrade into a depression. The NMC has renewed the blue alert for typhoon and the yellow alert for rainstorms. – Agencies
