Typhoon brings heavy rain, winds to Shanghai, coastal China

A typhoon brought high winds and heavy rains to China's eastern coastal areas including financial hub of Shanghai early Tuesday.

China’s National Meteorological Center said Typhoon Hagiput made landfall in Zhejiang province around 3:30 a.m., with winds blowing up to 136.8 kilometers (85 miles) per hour at its center.

It was moving rth at around 25 kilometers (16 miles) per hour and was expected gradually turn in a rasterly direction, heading out to sea again on Wednesday morning and moving toward Korean Peninsula.

China had ordered evacuations of vulnerable coastal areas in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to south, recalled fishing boats and suspended ferry service and some trains.

re were immediate reports of dam or injuries resulting from storm. State broadcaster CCTV showed trees toppled in Zhejiang city of Yuhuan, but re were indications of serious dam.

This year’s typhoon season has been relatively mild in China, although flooding since June along its major river systems has caused scores of deaths, forced around 2 million people to be evacuated and caused more than 49 billion yuan ($7 billion) in dam.