The Ministry of Water Resources and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued an orange meteorological warning for flash floods at 6 p.m. on August 8:
It is expected that from 20:00 on August 8 to 20:00 on August 9, there is a high possibility of flash floods in parts of southwest Beijing, western Inner Mongolia, northeast Sichuan, western Shaanxi, and eastern Gansu (yellow warning), among which, northeast Sichuan, western Shaanxi, and eastern Gansu have a high probability of flash floods (orange warning), and the counties (cities, districts) involved in the warning area are shown in the following table. Other areas may also be caused by local short-term heavy precipitation caused by flash floods, please pay attention to real-time monitoring, flood prevention and early warning, transfer and avoidance and other prevention work.