{"id":9255,"date":"2024-09-20T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T07:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T07:38:50","slug":"shanghai-hit-by-second-typhoon-days-after-historic-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/shanghai-hit-by-second-typhoon-days-after-historic-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai hit by second typhoon days after historic storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Roads and neighbourhoods in Shanghai flooded on Friday as the Chinese megacity was battered by a second typhoon days after it was hit by its strongest storm in 75 years.<\/p>\n<p>Typhoon Pulasan made landfall on Thursday night in the city&#8217;s Fengxian district, with a maximum wind speed of 23 metres per second (83 kilometres per hour), according to state-run Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The storm &#8220;is forecast to gradually weaken as it moves inland&#8221;, Xinhua said, though downpours continued in the city on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media Friday showed Shanghai residents wading through calf-level water in some neighbourhoods, though no severe damage or casualties have been reported so far.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Shanghai upgraded their typhoon alert levels as the storm approached the city on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pulasan comes days after Typhoon Bebinca wreaked havoc on Monday as the strongest storm to hit the megacity since 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Bebinca felled more than 1,800 trees and left 30,000 households without electricity, with authorities evacuating more than 400,000 people across Shanghai ahead of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions is making extreme weather more frequent and intense.<\/p>\n<p>China is the world&#8217;s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, though its per capita emissions pale in comparison to rival economic power the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roads and neighbourhoods in Shanghai flooded on Friday as the Chinese megacity was battered by a second typhoon days after it was hit by its strongest storm in 75 years. Typhoon Pulasan made landfall on Thursday night in the city&#8217;s Fengxian district, with a maximum wind speed of 23 metres per second (83 kilometres per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9257,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions\/9257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}