Guangdong flight chaos amid deluge

The remnants of Typhoon Haikui drenched southern China for a third day since making landfall, and airports in Guangdong canceled hundreds of flights due to stormy weather yesterday though winds had weakened.

Although storm clouds moved westward toward Guangdong, more downpours were still forecast for Fujian, where losses had hit 5.054 billion yuan (HK$5.4 billion) since the typhoon made landfall Tuesday.

In Guangzhou, Baiyun Airport canceled 316 flights and delayed 271, according to flight tracking app Flight Master. Shenzhen's Baoan Airport axed 176 flights and delayed half its flights while Zhuhai's Jinwan Airport canceled 91 and delayed 74.

Torrential rain reportedly led to rivers overflowing in the Guangdong town Tangxi, and some villages suffered severe waterlogging. Over 350 people, including elderly, women and children, were relocated

Rainstorms are forecast for central and eastern Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan's south, Guangxi's northeast and the center of Hainan, while Guangdong's north and southeast were expected to be hit harder.

The storms are expected to continue in Guangxi, bringing the southwestern region extreme rainfall today and tomorrow before potentially dissipating on Sunday.

Warnings of mountain torrents and geological disasters were issued for Guilin, Laibin, Guigang and Wuzhou.

Flooding in parts of Fujian in the past two days forced the evacuation of nearly 300,000 people, damaged more than 2,500 homes and hit 10,000 hectares of crops.

Rains in Fuzhou shattered 12-year-old records.