Unverified video from social media, but not looking good:
A friend noticed that it looks to organised to be from the inner area of Wuyi.
Still prices are gonna be higher and/or possibly more teas sold as something they are not.
Flooding in Wuyi
Torrential rains prompt evacuations in east China's Fujian
http://en.people.cn/n3/2024/0617/c90000-20181818.html
http://en.people.cn/n3/2024/0617/c90000-20181818.html
Parents' housekeeper has a daughter in law who works for a wuyi tea factory. She is saying flooding mostly affected lower residential areas and tea fields outside of the mountains. Flooding was not so bad in the mountains. Her factory is higher elevation in the mountains so when flooding started she and her family moved from their homes in the lower residential area and are staying in the factory. She said tea will likely be lower quality and more expensive
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I was in Wuyi during the flooding; it only effected the town and lowlands surrounding and directly inside the inner park. There were a few landslides within the park, but won't have any effect on the tea higher up the mountain. Prices *may* be higher this year, but it will have little to do with the flooding which hit after harvest; some regions of Wuyi town next to the river were flooded, and that may have ruined some stocks of tea sitting on the ground or low shelves, and a good merchant never lets a good crisis go to waste. Much more important is the persistent effects of climate change: most of southern China has just swung from 2+ years of drought and extreme heat to flooding + extreme heat; yields are low and the rains come late, after the tea should have sprouted. The flooding may effect next years prices as some trees in the lower-regions may not have survived, yielding less tea that can be sold as "inner park", but the lower yields and astronomical prices of high-end famous regions within the inner park will not be effected by the flooding itself.