Heavy rain and thunderstorms are forecast across parts of China from Monday, with national weather authorities issuing blue alerts for rainstorms and severe convective weather.
Satellite monitoring showed heavy rain from Sunday to Monday in parts of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in southwest China, with extremely heavy downpours recorded in Baise Prefecture of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China.
The National Meteorological Center said a new round of heavy rain would affect southern China from Monday, with the main rain belt expected to move north toward the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Heavy rain will also continue in southern Guizhou, northern and western Guangxi, and Yunnan.
From Monday through Friday, heavy showers are forecast from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to areas along and south of the lower Yangtze River, accompanied in some areas by thunderstorms, strong winds and other severe convective weather.
On Monday, parts of Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces in east China, as well as Guizhou and Yunnan in southwest China, are expected to see heavy rain or rainstorms.
Meteorologists warned that the rainfall in southern China could last for several days and may accumulate. Guizhou and Guangxi, where earlier rains have already left soil saturated, should guard against flash floods and waterlogging in urban and rural areas.
In northern China, showers and thunderstorms are expected to continue over the next three days in parts of north China, central and southwestern northeast China, eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and central and western Shandong, with some areas likely to see heavy rain or rainstorms, thunderstorms, strong winds or hail.
Heavy rain, thunderstorms forecast across parts of China
The framework agreement recently reached between Israel and Lebanon faces serious challenges in its implementation, according to Israeli experts.
After several days of negotiations brokered by the United States, Israel and Lebanon reached a new trilateral framework agreement aimed at ending the conflict in southern Lebanon.
The agreement was signed by the U.S., Israel and Lebanon on Friday at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. It calls for the disarming of all non-governmental armed factions in Lebanon, the deployment of the Lebanese army in southern areas of the country and a complete Israeli withdrawal back to the border.
Hezbollah says it will oppose the agreement and work to defeat it politically and practically. The group did not wait long before making a very public stand.
Just minutes after the announcement in Washington, thousands of Hezbollah supporters took to the streets of the Lebanese capital Beirut late Friday vowing to stand firmly against the agreement.
Parliament members aligned with Hezbollah added that the government has no authority to sign such a deal and it will therefore never stand.
"There is no way any Lebanese government could implement any agreement signed with Israel because it doesn't have the strength, it doesn't have the means and because of Hezbollah being in the opposition and holding the government by its throat," said Dr. Jacques Neriah, an analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already said the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will not withdraw from the security zone they maintain in Lebanese territory before Hezbollah is disarmed.
"It is up to the seriousness by the Lebanese military and until such time that the IDF sees that the Lebanese army is serious and can take the job, only then does Israel retreat and there are pilot projects and I think it's the best way to go about it," said Or Yissachar, executive director of Israeli think tank David Institute for Security Policy.
Israel-Lebanon agreement faces challenges in implementation: Israeli experts
