Floods touched Hong Kong on Tuesday due to high precipitation and led meteorologists to issue the highest level of torrential rainy alert for the fourth time in just eight days. In Beijing, the authorities evacuated 82,000 people.
The Meteorological Observatory of the Financial Center issued the “black” level of torrential rains alert, which means that precipitation must exceed 70 millimeters per hour.
Tuesday morning, the forecasters warned of a risk of “serious floods”, adding that the accumulation of the rains was likely to exceed 100 millimeters in certain places. The Chinese southern region has suspended lessons in schools and opened temporary shelters.
On social networks, images show vehicles almost overwhelmed in an external car park of the TSEUNG Kwan O. Eighteen case of floods were identified on Tuesday morning, according to drainage services.
![Vehicles are partially overwhelmed in a flooded area during heavy rains, in Hong Kong, China, August 5, 2025. [REUTERS - Lam Yik]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== "Vehicles are partially overwhelmed in a flooded area during heavy rains, in Hong Kong, China, August 5, 2025. [REUTERS - Lam Yik]")
Shenzhen also touched
The activities of the Queen Mary Hospital emergency department, on the island of Hong Kong, are also affected due to “serious floods” on several traffic lanes, according to health authorities.
In the Chinese technological pole of Shenzhen, bordering on Hong Kong, the authorities issued the highest level of alert to torrential rains on Tuesday, a first since 2018, according to local press.
Beijing evacuates 82,000 people
Chinese authorities have evacuated more than 82,000 people to Beijing exposed to torrential rains, according to a state media. Tens of thousands of people had been moved from vulnerable areas on Monday at 9:00 p.m., according to the headquarters of responses to the municipality, quoted by the China Nouvelle state agency.
The authorities alerted to the risk of flooding in the northwest suburbs of the Miyun district, the southwest of Fangshan, the west of Mentougou and the north of Huairou, according to the same source.
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