00:00Chinese authorities issued an honor and raid alert while stopping up protective and safety measures in provinces affected by the
00:07impact of Typhoon Babi.
00:08The storm made landfills in the eastern province of Seiyang Saturday with maximum winds of Category 13 near its center,
00:18a classification used by Asian meteorological agencies in which corresponds roughly to a Category 1 hurricane on the Global Zephyr
00:26-Simpson scale.
00:27The cyclone brought torrential rains and powerful winds to the densely populated coastal regions,
00:34forcing the evacuation of 1.71 million people in the affected areas.
00:38Although Babi weakened to a tropical storm after moving inland on Sunday morning,
00:44meteorological authorities warned that the storm system could still bring prolonged and widespread rainfall to parts of eastern and northern
00:52China in the coming days.
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