Typhoon Aere, the 18th this year, is expected to land at coastal areas between Lianjiang and Quanzhou in east China's Fujian province from Wednesday afternoon through the night, according to the Central Meteorological Observatory of China.

By 5 a.m. Wednesday, the eye of the typhoon Aere was in the seas area approximately 240 kilometers to the east of Fuqing City of Fujian Province, and the location was at 25.4 degrees north latitude and 121.8 degrees east longitude, causing a hurricane of 12 force in the affected sea waters.

Yang Guiming, a senior engineer with the Central Meteorological Observatory, said Aere was expected to be the second powerful typhoon following Rananim that would ravage southern China this year.

Influenced by Aere, there will be moderate to whole gale force wind in Bashi Channel, Balingtang Channel, sea waters east to the Taiwan Island, Taiwan Straits, East China Sea, northeastern South China Sea, Yangtze River Estuary, most areas in Taiwan, and the eastern areas of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces, from daytime Wednesday through Thursday, and a storm and hurricane in the sea waters and areas where the eye of typhoon Aere will sweep through, Yang noted.

And there will also be heavy to torrential rains in most areas of Taiwan, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, eastern Jiangxi province and northern and eastern Guangdong province, according to Yang.

"Aere" means a storm in the language spoken on the Marshall Islands.

Source: Xinhua