Typhoon Mirinae made landfall in south China's Hainan Province on Tuesday night as the National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a blue-alert.
台风银河本周二晚在中国海南省登陆,中央气象台发布蓝色预警。
Mirinae, China's third typhoon this year, landed in Dongao Town,
Wanning1 City at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday, packing winds of up to 100.8 km per hour, said the Hainan
provincial2 meteorological
observatory3.
More than 25,000 fishing
vessels4 in Hainan returned to harbor ahead of the storm.
All passenger ships across the Qiongzhou Strait, between Hainan and Guangdong, were suspended on Tuesday.
The typhoon will bring
gales5 and torrential rain to Hainan, the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous6 Region.