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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 rain of up to 100 to 120mm is forecast, particularly in the Seoul metropolitan area and Gangwon Province.

Jeong Gu-hui reports.

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

Driven by the lashing wind and rain, roadside trees were uprooted and fell across the roads.

Parts of the city center were submerged, and rescue workers used boats to evacuate residents trapped by the flooding.

Due to the impact of this 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 and weakened 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.

A storm is classified as a typhoon when the maximum wind speed near the center of the tropical vortex exceeds 17 meters per second, but it is now called a tropical depression because the wind has weakened to below 17 meters per second.

Although weaker than a typhoon, it still carries a large amount of moisture. This tropical depression is forecast to pass through the Shandong Peninsula and move toward Pyongyang, North Korea, by 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.

This 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, and there will be gusts of wind reaching 15 meters per second in some areas.

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

The monsoon season has not yet ended, so heat waves and heavy rain may continue to alternate.

(Video Editing: Chae Cheol-ho, Design: Choi Jae-young)