Weather tracker: Heavy rain triggers flooding and landslides in parts of China

Key points

• Heavy, prolonged rainfall in southern and central China has resulted in weather warnings for flash flooding, landslides and waterlogging.
• The slow-moving band of rainfall spanned 620 miles (1,000km) and travelled eastwards across the regions on Tuesday.
• It was formed from the convergence of multiple bands of rain originating from the Bay of Bengal, South China Sea and Pacific Ocean.
• Given the accompanying low wind speeds, high daily and hourly rainfall totals have been recorded, with as much as 75mm locally in Hunan, 85mm in Anhui in a 24-hour period, and 95mm on the island of Hainan.
• Twelve people have died because of the flooding and hundreds of residents have been evacuated by emergency services.