Land warnings likely at noon Friday
Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-15
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – With Supertyphoon Meranti barely gone, the Central Weather Bureau was
Flooding in Kaohsiung in the wake of Typhoon Meranti.
preparing to issue sea alerts for Typhoon Malakas by the end of Thursday and land alerts the following day, reports said.
Meranti left at least one person dead and more than 40 injured on a trail of destruction that passed through Southern Taiwan Wednesday, just ahead of the four-day Mid-Autumn Festival vacation. The bureau lifted land and sea warnings for Meranti at 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
However, the end of the holiday now looked certain to be disrupted by Typhoon Malakas, with sea warnings expected around 11:30 p.m. Thursday and land warnings at noon Friday. The impact of the storm would be the heaviest during Friday and Saturday, forecasters said.
While Meranti moved from east to west just south of Taiwan and later plunged into China’s province of Fujian to weaken into a tropical storm, Malakas is following a south-to-north coast over the Pacific east of Taiwan but would pass closer to the island than previously expected, forecasters said. [FULL STORY]
