Typhoon Hagupit makes landfall in Zhejiang

The NMC upgraded its typhoon alert at 6 pm Monday from yellow to orange, and renewed the alert at 6 am Tuesday, based on a four-tier color-coded warning system for severe weather, with red being the most serious, followed by orange, yellow and blue.

It forecast that the typhoon will track north and pass through Zhejiang, with its intensity gradually weakening. It is expected to leave Zhejiang Tuesday night and enter the western Yellow Sea via northern Jiangsu Wednesday before moving toward the western coast of the Korean Peninsula.

By 10 pm Monday, Zhejiang had evacuated 381,375 people. Some train services and construction work in Fujian were halted, with boats pulled ashore and nearby residents evacuated.