Shanghai’s roads and neighbourhoods flooded on Friday as the Chinese megacity was battered by a second typhoon, only days after being slammed by its biggest storm in 75 years.
Typhoon Pulasan made landfall in the city’s Fengxian area on Thursday night, with a maximum wind speed of 23 m/s (83 km/h), according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The storm “is forecast to gradually weaken as it moves inland,” Xinhua stated, though rain remained in the city on Friday morning.
Videos shared on social media Residents in some Shanghai neighborhoods were seen wading through calf-level water on Friday, although no serious damage or injuries have been recorded thus far.
Parts of Shanghai increased their typhoon alert levels as the storm neared on Thursday.
Pulasan follows Typhoon Bebinca, the strongest storm to batter the megacity since 1949, which wrecked damage on Monday.
Bebinca toppled over 1,800 trees and left 30,000 houses without power, and authorities evacuated over 400,000 people in Shanghai before of the storm.
According to scientists, climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather.
China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, yet its per capita emissions are small in compared to rival economic powerhouse the United States.