Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/26
By: Wang Shu-feng and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, July 26 (CNA) A tropical low pressure system detected in the South China Sea was
(From the Central Weather Bureau website)
upgraded to Tropical Storm Mirinae at 2 p.m. Tuesday, but is not expected to affect Taiwan, meteorologists said that day.
Mirinae, the third tropical storm to form in the Pacific this year, was forecast to move toward China’s Hainan Island, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, the storm was located 980 kilometers west-southwest of the Hengchun peninsula in Taiwan’s southernmost county of Pingtung, moving toward Hainan, CWB data showed.
The bureau also rebutted a forecast issued by a television weatherman that a tropical storm will form July 30 east of the Philippines, saying that currently, not even a tropical low pressure system has formed, let alone a tropical storm. [SOURCE]