Hong Kong (CNN)Typhoon Lekima made landfall in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang early Saturday morning, hours after China issued a red alert about the storm.
The storm reached China at about 1am local time (1pm Friday ET), according to estimates from CNN Weather.
According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Lekima sustained winds of 175 kph (110 mph), making it equivalent to a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Earlier in the week, it had briefly been classified as a “super” typhoon, before weakening somewhat.
