Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/21
By: Chen Wei-ting and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Sept. 21 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau said Wednesday that a tropical storm has formed
(From the Central Weather Bureau website)
over waters close to Guam, and is likely to develop into a typhoon this weekend.
If so, it will be the 17th typhoon to form in the Pacific this year, and will be named Megi, the bureau said.
The weather bureau observed that the tropical storm formed to the east of Guam at 8 a.m. Wednesday. The storm was 3,500 kilometers from Taiwan as of press time.
The storm will not affect Taiwan’s weather this week, the bureau forecast.
Forecaster Hsu Chung-yi (徐仲毅) said the storm could possibly develop into a typhoon on Friday or Saturday, and then move in a northwesterly direction along the southern edge of a Pacific high air pressure system. [FULL STORY]