hour and of course the heavy rainfall grounding some of those flights. now we focus our attention from linfa and look to chan-hom. this is a significant typhoon that is splitting the difference between okinawa and taiwan but it has a general west to northwesterly path that will make landfall in the east cohen coast of china in the next 24 hours. look at what is in the path of the storm, shanghai. population 24 million. we have the possibility of stronger winds, even though it will be a weakened phase. the storm will significantly impact that region with heavy rainfall and certainly gusty winds. this is the current stats on the storm. 220 kilometers an hour just below super typhoon status. we will watch for this storm carefully here at the cnn world weather center going forward. you can see the population density across the east coast of
celsius on wednesday. that is an all time record north of the alps in switzerland. it s about 104 fahrenheit. incredible heat in areas around switzerland. and we have three typhoons we re watching for you. linfa is riding parallel right to the coast of hong kong. we know winds about 120 kph this would be a category 1 hurricane. i think the winds will gradually die down. it s the heavy rainfall expected in an area that sees the wettest weather in four decades. this is one of the wetter seasons of the year. and the rain becomes thunderstorms on friday and partly cloudy skies returning on saturday. and we are watching another typhoon, chan-hom that is three to four days out and this one could 30 potentially impact shanghai. a lot going on.
first a trormt and then a fie foon are going to wallop asia with a one-two punch. can t get a break. . already seeing heavy rain from lynn fa. behind that chan-hom appears to be strengthening in to a super typhoon. our meteorologist is joining us. unusual to have these three storms back to back and millions of people will be impacted. we re talking about the most densely populated area of the world. eastern asia, a lot of these cities 2 million populations some tens of millions impacted by flooding the next couple of days. we ll delve in to what is hast happening. three storms lined up right now. pretty impressive sight.
again. it looks like a brief puddle but just that just ankle-deep water moving at 6 kilometers per hour can knock you off your feet. we say turn around don t drown is the statement used in the united states. 6 inches will move you off your feet. you bring that to knee high or 600 millimeters that lifts cars and moves them down stream. it is counter intuitive. you say the water is below the door of the vehicle but it takes less water to move the vehicle. we have a trio of tropical systems in the western and central pacific. linfa, we have had heavy rainfall in recent days. that system will weaken and bring some rains towards taiwan. it is this particular feature, chan-hom that is sitting out there west of guam that we are watching carefully.