China’s northern provinces are bracing for the country’s worst rainfall this year. In Hebei province, at least one person died and 34 others remain missing because of floods.

The province’s weather bureau has raised the most serious level of alert for rainstorms, forecasting heavy rain to continue throughout the next few hours. Water levels on major rivers in the province also breached their banks, damaging dams, hydropower stations, telecom base stations, and inundating 4,000 hectares of farmland. More than 67,000 people have been evacuated.

China’s capital city Beijing has also been lashed by torrential rains. The city’s weather bureau also warns the public of possible heavy floods in the suburbs and landslides in mountainous areas. Several roads in downtown Beijing have been inundated by flood waters, affecting commuters and motorists. The bureau has also added more buses to major routes to ease commuter build-up.

Heavy rains in neighboring Tianjin City have caused traffic chaos and cancellation of several flights. In Xinxiang City in Henan province, the local weather department recorded over 300 millimeters of rainfall during the past few hours. That made flood waters rise as high as 1.2 meters in several urban areas.