On July 29, China’s National Meteorological Center (NMC) upgraded an orange alert for rainstorms to a red alert in Beijing and its surrounding cities. Typhoon Doksuri, which had lashed the Philippines and China’s Taiwan region and Fujian Province, had now begun releasing heavy rainfall on this part of north China.
China has a four-tier weather warning system, with red representing the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow and blue. It was the second rainstorm red alert issued since the system was established in 2010, with the previous one issued in 2011.
Heavy rainstorms
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