Typhoon Muifa pounds eastern China with strong gales and rain

Beijing – Highly effective gales and torrential rains battered Zhoushan in jap China on Wednesday as Hurricane Muifa made landfall on the port metropolis in what native media referred to as the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the populous Yangtze River Delta in a decade.

Muifa landed round 8:30 p.m. as a robust storm, the second-highest in China’s tropical cyclone classification system, with the utmost wind velocity close to its heart reaching 42 meters per second, in accordance with state climate forecasters.