In the West Pacific basin, a robust typhoon is taking aim at Taiwan, the northernmost tip of the Philippines and southeastern China with the impacts of heavy rain and gusty winds. The center of Typhoon Koinu, known as Jenny in the Philippines, was churning near the southernmost coast of Taiwan late Wednesday. Koinu was packing...
After swirling across the Philippine Sea over the last few days and gaining strength, Typhoon Koinu is threatening southern Taiwan and southeastern China with torrential rain and damaging winds.Big waves hit the coast of Taiwan ahead of Typhoon Koinu, which is the second major storm to make a direct hit to the region in a month.
Numerous flights were cancelled across Taiwan on Wednesday as Koinu knocked at the country's doorstep with an impressive rain and wind field. Schools and businesses across the region were also closed on Wednesday in preparation for the typhoon's arrival,The life of Koinu began last Wednesday, Sept. 27, when a tropical zone of low pressure formed near Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. By Friday, the feature organized into a tropical depression over the central Philippine Sea.
As the wind field from the storm expands, wind gusts between 40-60 mph can spread from northern Taiwan to the northern Philippines and southeastern China, with gusts to 60-80 mph possible across southern and eastern areas of Taiwan."Wind gusts to 120 mph can occur in far southern Taiwan and Batanes with the AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 155 mph ," Nicholls said.
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