Helen Deng

RESIDENTS living in all of the city’s districts are set to get their own tailored weather forecasts by the end of this month, the Shenzhen Observatory has announced.

It will issue warnings for typhoons and severe thunderstorms on a per-district basis, the first mainland city to do so.

“The new program will be implemented by the end of this month,” Zhang Lei, an official with the weather observatory, told the Shenzhen Daily yesterday.

For 13 years, the weather observatory has been issuing citywide weather warnings, which can be inaccurate as Shenzhen’s weather varies greatly in different areas, said Zhang.

“As Shenzhen is a narrow and long coastal city, different areas often have different weather patterns,” said Zhang. “The amounts of annual rainfall in different areas may differ by 1,000 milliliters,” she said.

The weather observatory will issue district-specific warnings for five areas: Longgang District, Bao’an District, the Special Economic Zone, the eastern coast and the western coast, which will be further localized to subdistricts in some cases.