WAITING GAME:More than 4,000 people were still in shelters, while about 360,000 households were without electricity yesterday, data showed
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 29, 2016
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
More than 600 people were injured by Typhoon Megi, which made landfall on the east coast on Tuesday
Firefighters work to remove a fallen billboard from a lane off Xinhai Road Sec 3 in Taipei yesterday in the wake of Typhoon Megi. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
afternoon.
The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) lifted both land and sea warnings at 5:30pm yesterday after Megi weakened into a tropical storm and landed on China’s Fujian Province.
CWB forecaster Hsieh Ming-chang (謝明昌) said that although the nation was no longer under the storm’s coverage, wind speed in coastal areas still reached level 8 on the Beaufort scale.
Heavy precipitation continued in some southern regions due to lingering clouds from the storm, which should ease today, he said.
He added that a low-pressure system that is about 500km southeast of Taiwan is likely to move toward the nation between tomorrow and Saturday, which could affect the weather in Hualien, Taitung and southern Taiwan, he said. [FULL STORY]
