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Article: Tropical storm lands in east China
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 13, 2004
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Tropical storm lands in east China
HANGZHOU, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Tropical storm Haima, the 21st of
the kind this year, landed in east China's Zhejiang Province from
Wenzhou City around midday on Monday, said local meteorological
observatory.
The eye of Haima, the Chinese name for sea horse, caused a fresh
gale and is moving northwestwardly at a speed of 20 km per hour, said
the observatory.
Under its impact, 15 weather stations across the province
monitored a rainfall of 50 mm each, three of which even had a
rainfall of 100 mm, from 8 a.m. on Sunday through to 8 a.m. on