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A precocious question hits ashore arsenic Typhoon Chanthu approaches to Taiwan successful Keelung, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Taiwans upwind bureau warned of precocious winds and dense rainfall arsenic Typhoon Chanthu roared toward the land Saturday and said the storms halfway was apt to walk its eastbound seashore alternatively of hitting land. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

TAIPEI – Typhoon Chanthu drenched Taiwan with dense rainfall Sunday arsenic the storm’s halfway passed the island’s eastbound seashore heading for Shanghai.

On the Chinese mainland, the authorities issued a typhoon informing for Shanghai and warned of imaginable torrential rains.

Airline flights and bid work successful Taiwan were suspended Saturday arsenic the tempest approached. The Central News Agency reported much than 2,000 radical were evacuated from flood-prone areas of the eastbound seashore region of Hualien.

At midday Sunday, Chanthu’s halfway was astir 70 kilometers (45 miles) disconnected Taiwan's northeast coast, with winds of 162 kph (101 mph) and gusts up to 198 kph (124 mph), according to the Central Weather Bureau.

Up to 13 centimeters (5 inches) of rainfall fell Sunday successful immoderate areas, the Weather Bureau said. It said up to 20 centimeters (8 inches) was forecast.

Heavy rainfall besides fell connected Taipei, the capital, and different parts of the island.

Chanthu is forecast to caput northbound and dump rainfall connected Shanghai earlier turning eastbound toward South Korea and Japan, the Weather Bureau said.

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The airdrome successful Ningbo, southbound of Shanghai, canceled 41 flights, authoritative media reported. News reports said immoderate 3,400 sportfishing boats returned to larboard and 20,200 radical who enactment astatine food farms were moved retired of flood-prone areas.

Earlier, the tempest grazed the land of Luzon successful the Philippines, but nary flooding oregon damaged was reported.

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