Track forecast of severe typhoon Soulik in the next 48 hours from 5:00 am on July 13.

The National Meteorological Office continued to issue orange warning of typhoon in 6:00 today. The No. 7 severe typhoon “Soulik” has landed in the border of Xinbei City and Yilan County, Taiwan Province with scale 14 of maximum winds (45 meters per seconds) and 945 hPa of minimum air pressure. In 5:00 today, Soulik located about Taibei of Taiwan Province with scale 14 of maximum winds (42m/s) and 950 hPa of minimum air pressure. The radius of scale 7 wind circle was 380 kilometers and radius of scale 10 wind circle was 150 kilometers.

It’s forecasted Soulik will move to the northwest at the speed of 25 kilometers per hour and land in the areas of Lianjiang to Xiapu of Fujian Province in noon today.

Gale forecast of severe typhoon Soulik in the next 24 hours from 8:00 of July 13.

Influenced by Soulik, from this 8:00 to next 8:00, there will be scale 9-13 gale in eastern East China Sea, Taiwan Strait, northern and coastal areas of Taiwan, central-northern coastal areas of Fujian and southern coastal areas of Zhejiang in next 24 hours when the east sea surface of Taiwan gets scale 9-11 gale. Northern East China Sea, Bashi Channel, central-southern parts and coastal areas of Taiwan, northern coastal areas Zhejiang, Hangzhou Bay and coastal areas of Shanghai will get scale 7-9 gale. The winds of parts of Soulik’s eye passed will be scale 14.  Meanwhile, there will be rainstorm or severe rainstorm in Taiwan, most areas of Fujian, southern Zhejiang and eastern Jiangxi. Northwestern Taiwan, central and coastal areas of Fujian will get extreme downpours (250-350mm). (July 13)

Precipitation forecast of severe typhoon Soulik in the next 24 hours from 8:00 of July 13.

Editor: Hao Jing

Soulik is approaching coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian

At 6:00 am of July 12, National Meteorological Center continues to release orange warning of typhoon: This year’s No.7 severe typhoon “Soulik” was centered in Northwest Pacific which was about 570km away from east by south of Taipei, Taiwan at 5:00am of July 12 (22.7°N, 126.5°E). The maximum wind force around its center was force 15 (48m/s) and the minimum pressure was 940 hPa.

Track forecast of super typhoon Soulik in the next 48 hours from 5:00 am on July 12.

Soulik will move northwest at the speed 20km per hour and will approach the coastal area of eastern Taiwan and may land or pass northern Taiwan from after the midnight of July 12 to the morning of July 13 and move to the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian. Then it will land in the coastal areas of northern Fujian to southern Zhejiang from 12:00 to evening of July 13.

Influenced by it, from 8:00 am of July 12 to 8:00 am of July 13, there will be force 9 to 13 gale in the sea region of east of Taiwan and northern Taiwan. In south part of East China Sea, the wind force will be 9 to 11. Southeastern Zhejiang, northeastern Fujian and Taiwan will get heavy rain to rainstorm. Central and northern Taiwan will suffer heavy rainstorm, some places extremely heavy rainstorm.

Heat wave region forecast

At 6:00 am of July 12, National Meteorological Center continues to release blue warning of heat wave: In this daytime, the temperatures of central and south parts of the Yellow-Huaihe River Valley, the temperatures of central and south parts of the Yellow-Huaihe River Valley, the Yangtze-Huaihe River Valley, the Yangtze-Han River, most places of south of the Yangtze and South China and Sichuan will be higher than 35℃. In southern Henan, most places of Anhui, western Zhejiang, central and western Fujian, most places of Jiangxi, central and eastern Hunan, western and southern Hubei and most places of Chongqing, the temperatures will be 37 to 39℃.

From July 12 to 13, moderate to heavy rain will hit east part of Northwest China, central and south parts of North China and central and north parts of Shandong. Some places will get rainstorm (50 to 80mm), some places heavy rainstorm (100 to 150mm).

Editor Kong Yan

Soulik will land in coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian