“According to the Far Eastern UGMS, the crest of the Amur flood is shifting near the city of Khabarovsk. At 08:00 (1:00 Moscow time) on August 20, 2019, the water level rose by 5 cm and amounted to 600 cm, reaching the mark of a dangerous phenomenon, ”RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier, the head of the Far Eastern Department of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Vyacheslav Parshin, said that in the Khabarovsk Territory a fourth wave of floods is expected in the next few days.
Typhoons Lekima and Kros can provoke new flooding.