The tropical storm Goni landed at a speed of 83 km per hour early Wednesday morning in Taishan of southern China's Guangdong Province, according to local meteorological station.
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| A local struggles in the rain in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, on Aug. 5, 2009. The tropical storm Goni landed at a speed of 83 km per hour early Wednesday morning in Taishan of Guangdong Province, according to local meteorological station. Meteorologists also said another tropical storm, Morakot, which formed on the west Pacific Ocean Tuesday morning, was now moving at 20 km per hour northwestward. [Lu Hanxin/Xinhua] |
No casualties were reported yet by 8:00 a.m., the local government said.
The storm, the seventh of its kind in China this year, brought about torrential rain in southwestern part of the province with a maximum precipitation at 186 mm.
The meteorological station forecast that Goni would move westward.
Maritime affairs department in the neighboring Hainan province said Tuesday that it had issued an emergency warning to 20,000 fishing vessels in the South China Sea, calling them to harbor.
Meteorologists also said another tropical storm, Morakot, which formed on the west Pacific Ocean Tuesday morning, was now moving at 20 km per hour northwestward.
They estimated the two tropical storms would not influence each other before Friday.
