Wow, annual monsoons caused flooding.
Why do you hate science?
false it was not an average or even above average monsoon.
but you just had to say something.
China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) says that since 30 June, floods, hail, landslides, mudslides and other disasters have affected the 11 provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.
MCA say that over 1 million people have been relocated, and over half a million others have required emergency assistance. Around 40,000 houses have been destroyed or have collapsed and 248,000 have been damaged. More than 1.5 million hectares of cropland has also been damaged.
MCA estimate that the severe weather has caused direct economic losses of over 38 billion yuan (around 5.7 billion US dollars).
Since 30 June, several daily rainfall records have been broken, including in Macheng (285 mm), Jingmen (273 mm), Jiangxia (263 mm), Zhongxiang (230 mm), Huangpi (227 mm), all in Hubei Province, and Chaohu (293 mm) in Anhui Province, according to a statement by MCA.