Central Weather Bureau says current trajectory is towards Okinawa, Japan

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/06
By:  Central News Agency

A tropical depression east of Guam was upgraded to Tropical Storm Hagibis on Sunday morning, but it is not expected to directly affect Taiwan, according to Central Weather Bureau (CWB) projections.

As of 8 a.m. Sunday, the storm was located 3,760 kilometers east-southeast of Taiwan's southernmost tip Eluanbi, moving west-northwest toward the Ryukyu Islands at a speed of 24 kilometers per hour, according to the CWB.

With a radius of 100 kilometers, Hagibis was packing maximum sustained winds of 72 kilometers per hour with gusts of up to 101 kph.

As for the weather in northern Taiwan on Sunday, northeasterly winds are expected to cause intermittent showers along the coast near Keelung and in Taipei, with a chance of sudden downpours in northeastern Taiwan, the CWB forecast. Daytime temperatures are forecast to range from 28 to 29 degrees.    [FULL  STORY]