China News Service, Beijing, October 8 (Reporter Chen Su) The reporter learned from the China Meteorological Administration on the 8th that this year's No. 17 typhoon "Lion Mountain" is about to land in Hainan.

  On the morning of the 8th, the typhoon "Lion Mountain" formed, with its center being 175 kilometers away from Wanning City, Hainan Province, and the maximum wind force near the center was level 8. The Central Meteorological Observatory issued a blue warning for typhoon.

  It is expected that the "Lion Mountain" will move to the northwest at a speed of about 10 kilometers per hour, with a slight increase in intensity. It will make landfall on the coast of eastern Hainan Island from the night of the 8th to the morning of the 9th. The intensity of the landfall will be a tropical storm ( 8-9 levels).

After landing, the wind will turn to the west and move towards the north of Vietnam after passing through Hainan Island.

  Affected by this, in the next 24 hours, most of the South China Sea and the coast of South China will have strong winds of magnitude 6 to 7, and there will be heavy rains in Hainan, Guangdong and other places, and heavy rains locally.

  At the same time, cold air will continue to affect the northern regions.

It is expected that from the 8th to the 11th, the moderate-intensity cold air will affect most of the northern regions from west to east, and the temperature will drop by 4 to 6℃. The local temperature in Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin and other places will drop by more than 10℃; There will be northerly winds of magnitude 4 to 6 in the northern part of the country, and winds of magnitude 9 and gusts of 10 to 12 in the mountain pass area of ​​Xinjiang.

Some areas in northern Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, northeastern Inner Mongolia, northwest Heilongjiang and other places will have rain to sleet or snow, and there will be blizzards or heavy snowfalls in northern Xinjiang, northeastern Inner Mongolia, and northwest Heilongjiang.

  In addition, the tropical disturbance in the East Ocean to the Philippines has also intensified into a tropical depression on the morning of the 8th.

The Meteorological Department predicts that the tropical depression center will first move northeastward at a speed of 15-20 kilometers per hour, then turn northwestward, and gradually approach the sea near the Bashi Channel. The intensity will gradually increase, possibly within 24 hours. The internal development is the No. 18 typhoon "Compasses" this year.

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