In recent days, the rain in Guangdong and Guangxi has been pouring down, breaking the daily precipitation records for April in many places in both provinces.
Recently, Shenzhen issued yellow warnings for heavy rain and thunderstorms accompanied by strong winds across the city, prompting netizens to exclaim "rain leaking from the sky." Surveillance cameras at the Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau located at Shenzhen Airport captured the scene of thunderstorms surging towards the city. The downpour swept through the urban area with a fierce momentum, instantly engulfing the cameras.
According to the official Weibo account of China's Meteorological Administration, based on real-time statistics from 09:00 yesterday to 09:00 today, several observation stations in Guangdong and Guangxi broke their local April records for single-day precipitation. These stations include Huaiji, Deqing SanShui, Nanhai in Foshan, Xinxing, Yunan, Fengkai, Gaoyao, and Luoding in Guangdong, and Longxu, Wuzhou, and Jinxiu in Guangxi.
Among them, Huaiji in Guangdong recorded 217.1 millimeters of rainfall, breaking the local record for single-day precipitation in the history of meteorological observations.
In addition, in Shaoguan, Guangdong, the cumulative precipitation for April reached 733.5 millimeters as of 08:00 this morning, breaking the previous April total rainfall record of 417 millimeters ahead of schedule and by a large margin. Every millimeter of additional rainfall thereafter will continue to refresh this record.
Furthermore, according to the Ministry of Water Resources on April 21st, due to heavy rainfall, 40 rivers including the main stream and tributaries of the Beijiang River in the Pearl River Basin experienced floods exceeding the warning levels. It is forecasted that the heavy rainfall will continue for the next 3 days (April 20th to 22nd), causing further rises in water levels in the main streams and tributaries of the Xijiang River, as well as in the Beijiang River, with the possibility of severe flooding in the Beijiang River.
