Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-17
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan would have to wait until 4 a.m. Sunday before Typhoon Malakas had

Waves crashing against the rocks in Keelung.

definitively left the island behind, according to forecasters.
The storm took much more time than predicted to move off the east coast from south to north Saturday. It slowed down from 19 kilometers per hour on Friday evening to 12 kph by the end of the next day, the Central Weather Bureau said.

It brought extensive rain not just to northern Taiwan, which it approached without making landfall, but also to many other areas, including Chiayi County, where services on the scenic train route to Alishan had to be suspended due to landslides.

By Saturday evening, land warnings for Taichung, Nantou and Miaoli were ended, showing the typhoon was moving away. Its center had moved to 150 km east-northeast of Taipei by 7 p.m., the weather bureau said. Land warnings were still in effect for Taipei, New Taipei and Keelung in the north, Yilan and Hualien on the east coast and Taoyuan and Hsinchu on the west coast.     [FULL  STORY]