STORM CHASER:An aircraft will climb to an altitude of about 13km and conduct observations to better predict the typhoon’s path, the Central Weather Bureau said
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 26, 2016
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The Central Weather Bureau was scheduled to issue a sea alert for Typhoon Megi as of press time last 
night, as the storm gained power on its way toward eastern and southern Taiwan.
By 8pm yesterday, the center of the typhoon was 920km east-southeast of Taiwan proper, moving west-northwest at 16kph, packing winds up to 137kph.
The radius of the storm was 200km, the bureau said.
The sea alert was scheduled to issued at 11:30pm last night. Because of the approaching typhoon, the Maritime and Port Bureau said that several shipping route services would be canceled today, tomorrow and Wednesday.
A majority of the canceled shipping services are in eastern and southern Taiwan, including those between Taitung’s Fugang Fishing Port and Green Island (綠島); between Houbi Lake (後壁湖) in Pingtung County’s Hengchun Peninsula (恆春半島) and Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼); and between Donggang (東港) in Pintung County and Siaoliouciou Island (小琉球). [FULL STORY]
