More Torrential Rain Lashes ShanghaiTorrential 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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