Flights were canceled in eastern China, we are talking about air ports in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Nanjing. Typhoon Bebinka was recorded in the Yangtze Delta region, the Civil Aviation Administration of the republic reports.
The typhoon hit Shanghai on the morning of September 16, now it is moving in a northwesterly direction, gradually weakening. The wind speed in the middle of the cyclone is 42 m/s. The Central Meteorological Administration of China has declared the highest level of danger.
More than 400,000 people were evacuated from potentially dangerous areas. The Chinese authorities recommended that the crews of ships take shelter from the weather in ports. According to forecasters, this is the strongest tropical cyclone that has reached Shanghai since the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
