Typhoon Hagupit, China's fourth typhoon of 2020, made landfall in coastal areas of Muteise district, Wenzhou city, Zhejiang province at around 3:30 a.m. on August 4, with winds approaching the center of the typhoon at 137 km/h - China Daily reported.
Typhoon Hagupit brought heavy rains to Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, with gusts of wind from level 7 to level 10 in some areas such as the Yangtze River mouth, Hangzhou Bay, as well as coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian.
The National Meteorological Center has raised the storm warning at 6:00 p.m. on August 3 from yellow (level 3 on a 4-level scale) to orange (level 2) and repeated the orange warning at 6:00 a.m. on August 4.
Hagupit is forecast to move northward with gradually weakening intensity, leaving Zhejiang on the evening of August 4 and passing north of Jiangsu into the western sea of the Korean Peninsula on August 5, before moving towards the western coast of the Korean Peninsula.
By 10pm on August 3, China's Zhejiang Province had evacuated 381,300 people. Some boat services and construction works in Phuc Kien have been suspended, boats have been pulled ashore and nearby residents have been evacuated.
