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Wednesday, August 08, 2001, updated at 10:54(GMT+8)
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More Torrential Rain Lashes Shanghai

Torrential rain again hit this east China metropolis Tuesday afternoon, following Monday's rainstorm, the heaviest in the city in the past 10 years.

Over a dozen streets and around 1,600 households were inundated in the Yangpu and Boshan districts alone.

The one-hour rainstorm was accompanied by thunder and lightning, and the rainfall in Yangpu District reached 116 mm.

A spokesman for the local meteorological station said that a torrential downpour every day in the summer season is rare for Shanghai.

Experts attribute the unusual torrential rain to the city's " thermal conductivity effect".

The traffic in the downtown area was completely paralyzed here Monday, as the 14-hour on-and-off downpour swamped almost all the major streets in the city's urban areas, inconveniencing at least 30,000 households.







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Torrential rain again hit this east China metropolis Tuesday afternoon, following Monday's rainstorm, the heaviest in the city in the past 10 years.

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