Typhoon Chan-hom strikes eastern coast of China with wind speeds of 173-Kmph

A powerful typhoon Chan-hom has made landfall along the coast of China's eastern Zhejiang province resulting in evacuation of nearly one million people from coastal areas. The wind speeds of the typhoon is in the region of 173-Kmph and around 100mm of rain has fallen since Friday. It is now heading north past the city of Shanghai.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 11 July 2015.

Before striking China, the typhoon had hit Taiwan and Japan earlier in the week and had uprooted many trees. This is possibly the strongest July typhoon to hit Zhejiang since 1949.
Chan-hom first hit Zhejiang province on an island near the city of Ningbo and no deaths or injuries have been reported. One village, Laiao, has received more than 400mm (16in) of rain.
Due to the typhoon more than 400 flights have been cancelled from Shanghai as also a number of public events, and people have been advised to remain indoors. Dozens of flights have also been cancelled in Zhoushan, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou and the province of Zhejiang has recalled its entire fishing fleet back to port.
Some train services have also been cancelled.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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