Haitang is likely to land in southern Taiwan around noon Sunday
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/07/29
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Even though Typhoon Nesat (尼莎) is not expected to land in
Typhoon Nesat is to be followed by Tropical Storm Haitang. (By Central News Agency)
Taiwan until Saturday evening, the next tropical storm, Haitang (海棠), was already roaring toward the island, with land and sea alerts valid for two storms simultaneously for the first time in 50 years, the Central Weather Bureau said.
Until 3 p.m. Saturday, Haitang was just a tropical depression over the South China Sea, but at that time, it gained enough strength to be labeled the 10th tropical storm of this year’s typhoon season.
The new storm was so close to Taiwan that the weather bureau declared land and sea alerts at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Haitang was being pulled up northward by Nesat, leading to the possibility of a Fujiwhara effect (藤原效應), where two cyclones or typhoons within 2,000 kilometers of each other orbit each other or even merge into one storm. [FULL STORY]
