Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/08/04
By: Yu Hsiao-han and Christie Chen

Taipei, Aug. 4 (CNA) A tropical depression between Guam and the Philippines strengthened into Tropical Storm Lekima Sunday and is forecast to bring rain to northern and eastern Taiwan later this week, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Sunday.

Lekima, the ninth storm of the Pacific typhoon season this year, is not expected to make a landfall in Taiwan, but the storm's peripheral effect is forecast to bring showers to northern and eastern Taiwan on Thursday and Friday, according to the CWB.    [FULL  STORY]