Southern China Battered by Record Rainfall as El Niño Takes Hold

A ferocious wave of torrential rain has battered six provinces across southern China, forcing mass evacuations and submerging cities in floodwaters that have shattered historical precipitation records. 

The extreme weather over the weekend and into Monday affected Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hunan provinces. Areas including central and eastern Guangxi, as well as central, northern, and eastern Guangdong, absorbed between 100 to 300 millimeters of rain, with localized clusters getting slammed by more than 600 millimeters.