Flood season arrives early in S.China

The Ministry of Water Resources has urged local authorities in southern parts of the country to take preventive measures against heavy rains, as the annual flood season has begun with short, local downpours.

Warnings were issued on Friday following heavy rainfall that began on Tuesday. About 370,000 square kilometers of the South have already experienced more than 50 millimeters of rain a day for three days, the ministry said in a media release on Friday, adding that the largest single daily amount was 194 mm.

This shows that China's flood season began on Friday, eight days earlier than usual, it continued.