The municipality of Beijing issued its maximum alert on Monday for torrential rains, a few days after deadly rains. The municipal meteorological service issued a red alert – the fourth and higher level of the alert system – for heavy rain between Monday noon to Tuesday morning.
Most districts of the city should undergo 100 mm precipitation in the space of six hours during the night, an already very high level. But that could go up to 150mm, see 200mm, in certain areas on the outskirts of the capital.
“There is an extremely high risk of sudden floods, mud shifts, landslides and other natural disasters in mountainous areas,” the municipality said in a press release on social networks.
“It is advisable to citizens not to go out, except if necessary,” says the text.
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated last month in northern China after torrential rains.
Rural districts in the north of Beijing were hardly affected last week by bad weather, which caused at least 44 people and nine missing, according to official figures.