Typhoon Pulasan makes 2nd landfall in China

SHANGHAI -- Pulasan, the 14th typhoon of the year as counted by China's meteorological authorities, made a second landfall in the country on Thursday.

The typhoon, which has reached a maximum wind force of 23 meters per second near its center, hit Fengxian district of Shanghai at about 9:45 pm after its first landfall earlier the same day in Zhejiang Province, according to the municipal meteorological observatory of Shanghai.

Pulasan is the second typhoon to make landfall in China this year, following Typhoon Bebinca, the 13th typhoon of the year, which churned ashore at Shanghai's Lingang area of Pudong district on Monday.

Its intensity is forecast to gradually weaken as it moves inland, said the Zhejiang meteorological observatory.