Shanghai was hit by Typhoon Bebinca on September 16th. Hundreds of thousands of residents were evacuated in what state media called the strongest storm to rip through the financial hub in 75 years. Fierce winds uprooted trees and toppled billboards.

Roads and neighbourhoods in Shanghai flooded on Friday (September 20, 2024) as the Chinese megacity was battered by a second typhoon days after it was hit by its strongest storm in 75 years.

The city canceled all flights at its two airports and closed major attractions, amid a three-day national holiday.

The strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since at least 1949 flooded roads with water and broken tree branches, knocked out power to some homes and injured at least one person as it swept over the financial hub Monday.

The strongest typhoon in more than seven decades has struck China’s financial hub, leading to widespread flight cancellations and disrupting holidaymakers at the start of a days-long national festival.

The strongest storm to make landfall in Shanghai in recent decades was Typhoon Gloria in 1949, which tore through the city with gusts of 144 kph. Shanghai was last threatened by a direct hit in 2022 by the powerful Typhoon Muifa, which instead landed 300 km away in the city of Zhoushan, in Zhejiang province.

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Doug McIntyre discusses the massive typhoon that recently hit Shanghai, the largest since 1949. The storm has caused significant destruction in one of the world’s most populous cities, and it highlights the growing frequency of devastating weather events in major urban areas.