hiromutsui nagano nhk world, guryongpo. >>> all right. and people in eastern china have seen severe weather in the past few days, but it seems to have tapered off but now they are experiencing rising temperatures. mai shoji has more in the world weather report. >> yes, good morning. we are still talking about some level of instability not as what we have seen through the past few days, especially yesterday, when this image happened across bengbu in eastern china. this isn't snow. this is hail storms. the damaging weather was felt in eastern china on tuesday when a hailstorm tore through the region for up to 20 minutes. a number of villagers were hit with befalling ice. it destroyed crops and numerous greenhouses. in the worse-hit town, up wards of 2,200 hectares of crops were lost. during transition season it is not uncommon to hear about strong storms in southeastern china but typically the problem is heavy rainfall and flooding. so after this we may see the flooding continue. right now the heavy rainfall is concentrated down to the sout