SHANGHAI, Sept 20, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Roads and neighbourhoods in Shanghai
flooded on Friday as the Chinese megacity was battered by a second typhoon
days after it was hit by its strongest storm in 75 years.

Typhoon Pulasan made landfall on Thursday night in the city's Fengxian
district, with a maximum wind speed of 23 metres per second (83 kilometres
per hour), according to state-run Xinhua news agency.

The storm "is forecast to gradually weaken as it moves inland", Xinhua said,
though downpours continued in the city on Friday morning.

Videos posted on social media Friday showed Shanghai residents wading through
calf-level water in some neighbourhoods, though no severe damage or
casualties have been reported so far.

Parts of Shanghai upgraded their typhoon alert levels as the storm approached
the city on Thursday.

Pulasan comes days after Typhoon Bebinca wreaked havoc on Monday as the
strongest storm to hit the megacity since 1949.

Bebinca felled more than 1,800 trees and left 30,000 households without
electricity, with authorities evacuating more than 400,000 people across
Shanghai ahead of the storm.

Scientists say climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions is making
extreme weather more frequent and intense.

China is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, though its per
capita emissions pale in comparison to rival economic power the United
States.