On May 18, Xiamen was hit by heavy rainfall and issued the first red warning for heavy rainfall this year, with the maximum rainfall exceeding 100 mm, severe flooding in many low-lying areas in the city and traffic disruption. Authorities launched a Level 3 emergency response to prevent heavy rainfall and flooding.
According to local media reports, on May 18, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, issued the first red alert for heavy rainfall this year, with many places hit by heavy rainfall and severe flooding in many low-lying areas in the area. The Xiamen Meteorological Station issued a red warning signal for heavy rain, saying that local towns and streets in Haicang District had seen more than 70 millimeters of heavy precipitation in the past three hours.
The video released by netizens shows that several districts in Xiamen are severely flooded due to heavy rainfall, with water in many streets in the city reaching a depth of more than 1 meter, flooding cars and disrupting traffic. Many houses in low-lying areas were also flooded.
It is reported that the heavy rainfall is mainly concentrated outside the island, the island rainfall is very little, and even some sections are “dry thunder not rain”.
Local netizens shared.
The local netizens shared: “From noon to afternoon, the thunder played half a day! It rained only just after work! It’s really excellent.”
“Usually 20 minutes away, now over 1 hour and still stuck in traffic. Lightning, standing water, can’t move, starving to faint.”
“On the island, just dark for a while, hit two thunder, cell phone weather alert red warning message for heavy rain sent, then the sky lit up, to now a drop did not fall.”
“The same Xiamen, outside the island rain is boiling, the island is still out of the sun.”
“The sky is about to explode.”
“Tonight thunder bursts, heavy rain like splashing.”
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