Tropical Depression Pulasan as of 10 a.m. J.S.T. ? Wind speed
35 m.p.h. Max. sustained
Location
NW of Shanghai 86 miles away
Direction
NW at 16 m.p.h.
Tropical Storm Pulasan made landfall near Shanghai on Thursday, halting trains, grounding ferries and bringing the risk of floods and landslides three days after the Chinese megacity was pounded by its strongest typhoon in 75 years.
Pulasan made landfall on Thursday evening in the city of Zhoushan, on an island south of Shanghai, according to China’s National Meteorological Center. It was packing maximum sustained winds of about 40 miles per hour, nearly 35 m.p.h. below hurricane strength, according to the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
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Source: National Hurricane Center All times on the map are Japan time. Map shows probabilities of at least 5 percent. The forecast is for up to five days, with that time span starting up to three hours before the reported time that the storm reaches its latest location. Wind speed probability data is not available north of 60.25 degrees north latitude. By William B. Davis, John Keefe and Bea Malsky
Tropical Storm Pulasan Nears Shanghai After Grazing Japan - The New York Times
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