Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/12
By: Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, Sept. 12 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Monday that it has upgraded
(From the Central Weather Bureau website)
Tropical Storm Meranti to a strong typhoon, and could issue a sea warning for the storm for the Bashi Channel and waters off southeastern Taiwan at 11:30 p.m.
As of 2 p.m., the storm was centered 1,000 kilometers east-southeast of Eluanbi, the southernmost tip of Taiwan, moving at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour in a west-northwesterly direction, the bureau said.
With a radius of 200 km, the storm was packing maximum sustained wind of about 183.6 kph, with gusts of up to 226.8 kph, bureau data shows.
The projected path of Meranti shows that its center might skirt Eluanbi before heading to China, and could be at its closest to Taiwan Wednesday, according to the bureau. [SOURCE]
