At 09:00 on July 11 the center of Typhoon Bawei (the ninth storm of the season) was about 460 km southeast of the Zhejiang–Fujian border, with peak winds near the center of 14 on the Chinese scale (≈42 m/s). Bawei is expected to make landfall on the Zhejiang coast between Sanmen and Cangnan in the early hours of July 12 at typhoon strength (12–13 on the Chinese scale, 33–40 m/s), then turn northwest and north. Heavy to torrential rain, locally extreme, is forecast across eastern and northern Jia

At 09:00 on July 11 the center of Typhoon Bawei (the ninth storm of the season) was about 460 km southeast of the Zhejiang–Fujian border, with peak winds near the center of 14 on the Chinese scale (≈42 m/s). Bawei is expected to make landfall on the Zhejiang coast between Sanmen and Cangnan in the early hours of July 12 at typhoon strength (12–13 on the Chinese scale, 33–40 m/s), then turn northwest and north. Heavy to torrential rain, locally extreme, is forecast across eastern and northern Jiangnan, Jianghan, Jianghuai and Huanghuai. The Central Meteorological Observatory issued a red heavy-rain warning and an orange typhoon warning at 10:00 on July 11. The National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters activated a level-4 flood/typhoon emergency response at 11:00 on July 11 for Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Sichuan.