Typhoon Pulasan floods Shanghai

Roads and neighborhoods successful Shanghai flooded connected Friday arsenic the Chinese megacity was battered by a 2nd typhoon days aft it was deed by its strongest tempest successful 75 years.

Typhoon Pulasan made landfall Thursday nighttime successful the city's Fengxian district, with a maximum upwind velocity of 83 kph, according to the state-run Xinhua quality agency.

The tempest "is forecast to gradually weaken arsenic it moves inland," Xinhua said, though downpours continued successful the metropolis Friday morning.

Video posted connected societal media Friday showed Shanghai residents wading done calf-deep h2o successful immoderate neighborhoods, though nary terrible harm oregon casualties person been reported.

Parts of Shanghai upgraded their typhoon alert levels arsenic the tempest approached the metropolis Thursday.

Pulasan comes days aft Typhoon Bebinca wreaked havoc Monday arsenic the strongest tempest to deed the metropolis since 1949.

Bebinca felled much than 1,800 trees and near 30,000 households without electricity, with authorities evacuating much than 400,000 radical crossed Shanghai up of the storm.

Scientists accidental clime alteration driven by greenhouse state emissions is making utmost upwind much predominant and intense.

China is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, though its per capita emissions airy successful examination to rival economical powerfulness the United States.