Strong tropical storm Bilisi is gradually approaching coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujiang. Yesterday, Zhang Jinru, Deputy Party Secretary and Mayor of Shaoxing, made an important instruction on fighting Bilisi, requiring all departments at all levels to closely track the developments of the tropical storm, earnestly do prevention work, and try hard to reduce disaster losses to the lowest extent.
Yesterday morning, Liao Juanqing, Commander in Chief of the Municipal Headquarters of Flood and Drought Prevention and Vice Mayor of Shaoxing, exclusively summoned departments of flood prevention, irrigation works, and meteorology to discuss countermeasures on fighting the No.4 tropical storm and make deployment on flood prevention work.
It s reported that the center position of the No.4 strong tropical storm Bilisi was located on the ocean about 720 kilometers southeast away from Shaoxing at 5 pm yesterday, and the maximum wind speed near the center reached 11 grade(30m/s).
The Municipal Meteorological Station analyzed that it s predicted that Bilisi would land Taiwan last night, passed by Taiwan island, and probably land coastal area of Jujian again from this afternoon to the first midnight. Affected by the periphery of the strong tropical storm, Shaoxing would have comparatively strong wind and rainfall today and tomorrow, the periodic rainfall would hit 20-30 millimeters, part areas would hit 30-50 millimeters, and very few areas would hit over 50 millimeters, while the east wind would reach 4-5 grade, and the gust would hit 6-8 grade.
The Headquarters of Flood and Drought Prevention issued a notice yesterday, requesting all levels to closely track the developments of typhoon and timely deploy typhoon fighting. Relevant departments should give prominence to the key point, and require fishing and transport boats to return back to harbors. All levels should tangibly inspect and monitor reservoirs, gates, and key embankments, and strengthen prevention work on mountain flood, hill slide, and mudslide in mid and lower stream. Media and telecommunication departments should timely publish and broadcast typhoon news to increase typhoon prevention capacity of the masses.