Overview

• Podul made landfall as a tropical storm on Fujian’s coast before moving northwest at about 30–35 km/h across Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces.
• The Hong Kong Observatory briefly issued its highest-level black rainstorm warning, suspending flights, court hearings and outpatient clinics as hourly rainfall topped 70 mm.
• About 15,000 residents were evacuated from coastal areas of southern China and officials announced an extra 430 million yuan in disaster relief, raising total allocations since April to 5.8 billion yuan.
• Emergency crews in Taiwan continue search-and-rescue and power-restoration after Podul left one person missing, more than 100 injured and widespread outages during its typhoon landfall.
• Forecasters warn that lingering downpours could swell rivers and lakes in inland provinces like Hunan and Jiangxi, heightening the threat of secondary flooding.