China's meteorological office has issued an orange alert for heavy rain across most of the southern regions from Monday to Tuesday morning. Orange is the second level of a four-tier color-coded system.

Photo taken on July 3, 2016 shows the scene of a waterlogged street in Xuancheng city, East China's Anhui province. Many regions in Anhui were flooded due to heavy rainfall in recent days. [Photo/Xinhua]

Rainstorms are expected in eastern China's Anhui, Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces, central China's Hubei and Hunan provinces, and, in the southwest, Guizhou Province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Some regions are expected to see rainfall of up to 200 millimeters.