Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/14
By: Chen Wei-ting and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) Tropical Storm Malakas has strengthened into a typhoon and is expected to
Potential path of Typhoon Malakas. (From the Central Weather Bureau website)
come closest to Taiwan on Saturday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Wednesday.
As of 2 p.m. on Wednesday, the storm was located 1,380 kilometers southeast of Taiwan’s southernmost point of Eluanpi (鵝鑾鼻) and was moving in a northwesterly direction toward Taiwan at 22 kilometers per hour, the bureau said.
The typhoon was carrying maximum sustained winds of 126 kph, with gusts of up to 162 kph, according to CWB data.
A sea warning for Malakas could be issued late Thursday or Friday, and it could affect northern and eastern Taiwan when it comes closest to the country on Saturday, the bureau said.
Malakas is expected to then move northward toward Japan, it said. [SOURCE]
