Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-02
By: By Chen Wei-ting and Y.F. Low, Central News Agency

Taipei, July 2 (CNA) A tropical depression has formed over the western Pacific near Guam and is likely to strengthen to become the year’s first typhoon, Nepartak, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Saturday.
According to forecaster Lin Ting-yi, it is unclear when the low pressure system will become a typhoon, but what is certain is that such an intensification will not occur within the next 24 hours.

At present, the tropical depression is still more than 3,000 kilometers away from Taiwan, the bureau said.     [SOURCE]