Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/05
By Chen Wei-ting and Christie Chen
Taipei, July 5 (CNA) Typhoon Nepartak is expected to come closest to Taiwan on Thursday and
(From the Central Weather Bureau)
Friday, the Central Weather Bureau forecast Tuesday.
As of 8 a.m., Nepartak was centered 1,810 kilometers southeast of Taiwan’s southernmost tip, moving at a speed of 28 km per hour in a west-northwesterly direction, bureau data showed.
It is packing maximum sustained winds of 118 kph, with gusts reaching 154 kph, according to the bureau.
Having grown in intensity from a tropical storm into a typhoon overnight, Nepartak continues to pick up strength because it has a small vertical wind shear — the change in wind direction with height in the atmosphere — and is passing over a warm body of water, the bureau said. [FULL STORY]