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China’s national weather observatory issued a blue alert on Sunday, the lowest in a four-tier weather warning system, for rainstorms in the central and eastern parts of the country in coming days, after recent floods in Guangdong province brought direct economic losses of 39 million yuan ($5.7 million).
It was the third consecutive day that the National Meteorological Center issued a blue alert. China has a four-tier color-coded warning system for severe weather, with red being the most serious, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
According to the Guangdong flood control and drought relief headquarters, the province’s Dapu county was hit by its biggest flood in a decade after heavy rainfall on Friday and Saturday in at least five cities. As of Saturday evening, 227 of the 2,200 people affected in the county had been evacuated.
The headquarters also said that 240 hectares of farmland in Dapu had been flooded and 13 sections of river dikes were damaged or destroyed. No casualties were reported.
On Monday, the storm front will move from the west to the central and eastern parts of the country, and some areas will see torrential rain accompanied by thunder or hail, the Meteorological Center said on Sunday.
Rainfall in Guangdong is expected to continue until Tuesday.
According to the Ministry of Water Resources, 20 to 40