Focus Taiwan
Date:2016/09/29
By: Wang Shu-fen and Christie Chen
Taipei, Sept. 29 (CNA) Tropical Storm Chaba is likely to turn north after approaching Japan’s Okinawa,
(From the Central Weather Bureau website)
lowering the chances of it hitting Taiwan in the coming days, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Thursday.
The bureau predicted that Chaba, which formed in the Pacific a day earlier, will begin to move in a west-northwesterly direction toward Okinawa Friday.
It is likely to turn further north toward Japan proper once it reaches waters east of Okinawa, meaning that the storm circle might not touch land in Taiwan, according to the bureau.
That would spare Taiwan the fate of being hit by a typhoon for the third time in three weeks following the destruction caused by Typhoons Meranti and Megi on Sept. 14 and 27. [FULL STORY]
