Posted on 09/21/2013 11:37:27 PM PDT by TexGrill
Typhoon Usagi came closest to Taiwan yesterday afternoon and is moving away from the nation in the direction of Hong Kong, but heavy rainfall is still expected to continue throughout today, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
As of 7:15pm, Typhoon Usagi had weakened slightly, with its center 140km southwest of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻). The wind speed near its center was 48 meters per second in a radius of 280km and the typhoon was moving west-northwest at 19kph.
The bureau said that the land alert for Usagi may possibly be lifted as soon as this morning. The center of the typhoon is estimated to be about 510km west of Oluanpi by 5pm today.
However, the bureau warned that severe torrential rains may still hit areas including eastern Taiwan, Pintung County, Greater Kaohsiung and Nantou County, and torrential rains may fall in areas including northern Taiwan, Greater Taichung and Greater Tainan today.
People living in mountainous areas should especially watch out for landslides, falling rocks, mud flows or flash floods; and people living in low-lying areas should be prepared for flooding, it said.
It also warned that people should avoid heading to the ocean because waves and wind along the coastline are still very strong, and that strong wind gusts at level 10 on the Beaufort scale — 88kph to 103kph — are also likely to blow in the greater Taipei area.
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Dude, provide a conversion for those of us who live in the real world.
(107 mph)
All Gore hardest hit...
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