Chinese meteorological authority issued a blue alert on Saturday as the country braces for another typhoon that is expected to hit the southern province of Guangdong. A warning has been released about possible mountain floods in the southwest brought by torrential rains.

According to the National Meteorological Center, the storm is expected to make a land fall in Guangdong on Tuesday. Upon landfall, its speed is expected to reach between 38 and 45 meters per second.

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The agency also warned that the heavy rainfall could lead to mountain floods in some parts of China's Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan Province between Saturday night and Sunday night.

The typhoon, which was detected 510 km off the coast of Manila on Saturday, is the fourth to hit the country this year. Last week Tuesday, Typhoon Mirinae made landfall in China's Hainan Province.

Typhoon Mirinae, which started as a depression in the East Vietnam Sea on Monday, made a landfall in Dongao Town, Wanning City at past 10 in the evening on Tuesday. It was packing winds of up to 100.8 km per hour.

Local authorities made the necessary precautions; ordering more than 25,000 fishing vessels to the harbor, suspending train services between Hainan and Guangdong, and canceling scheduled trips of all passenger ships across Qiongzhou Strait, between Hainan and Guangdong.

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