Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/10/05
By: Chen Wei-ting and Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, Oct. 5 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) has issued a sea warning for a tropical storm located southeast of Taiwan on Wednesday, forecasting heavy rainfall in eastern Taiwan.
As of 5 p.m., the storm was centered 460 kilometers southeast off Eluanbi, the southernmost tip of Taiwan.
It was moving at a speed of 24 km per hour in a west-northwesterly direction and is expected to pass through the Bashi Channel Thursday.
With a radius of 120 kilometers, the storm has a maximum sustained wind of about 65 km per hour, with gusts of up to 90 kph, the bureau’s data showed. [FULL STORY]