Typhoon Bavi Dissipates After Hitting China; Heavy Rain Expected to Move Toward Korean Peninsula

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Amid the hot and humid weather, rain is expected across the country again tomorrow, July 14. As the rain clouds from Typhoon Bavi, which struck China, move toward Korea, heavy rainfall of up to 100 to 120mm is forecast, particularly in the Seoul metropolitan area and Gangwon Province.

Reporter Jeong Gu-hui has the story.

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This is Zhejiang Province in eastern China, where the 9th Typhoon Bavi made landfall.

Strong winds and rain uprooted trees, which then fell onto the roads.

Parts of the city were submerged, and rescue workers used boats to evacuate residents who were stranded.

Due to the impact of the typhoon, approximately 2.4 million people in China were evacuated, and more than 2,800 flights were canceled.

The Korea Meteorological Administration announced that Typhoon Bavi dissipated over the Chinese mainland at 3:00 PM today, weakening into a tropical depression.

The issue is that this tropical depression is heading toward Korea.

Typhoon Bavi formed in the distant Pacific Ocean on July 2 and once grew into a "super typhoon," reaching the highest category of 5.

As it passed north of Taiwan, it caused over 100 injuries in Taiwan alone.

It then made landfall in eastern China. Looking at the infrared satellite imagery of the typhoon, the vortex structure of Bavi, which once had a clear eye, has now completely collapsed, leaving only a mass of clouds, as you can see.

While a tropical cyclone is called a typhoon when the maximum wind speed near its center exceeds 17 meters per second, it is now referred to as a "tropical depression" because the winds have weakened to 17 meters per second or less.

Although weaker than a typhoon, it still carries a significant amount of moisture. This tropical depression is predicted to pass through the Shandong Peninsula and move toward the Pyongyang area in North Korea tomorrow.

Accordingly, up to 120mm of rain is forecast for the northern part of Gyeonggi Province, which is close to North Korea, from tomorrow through July 15, with up to 100mm in northern Gangwon Province and 30 to 100mm in Seoul.

The rain will begin in the Seoul metropolitan area tomorrow morning and expand across the country.

In particular, heavy downpours of 20 to 50mm per hour are expected tomorrow night, with gusts of up to 15 meters per second in some areas.

After the rain stops, the heat is expected to continue, with the sensible temperature exceeding 30°C (86°F).

As the monsoon season has not yet ended, heat waves and heavy rains may occur alternately.

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