The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) yesterday morning lifted land and sea warnings for tropical depression Nanmadol after the storm system was downgraded from its previous tropical storm status.
The bureau said Nanmadol had continued to diminish in strength, its radius had grown smaller and it no longer posed a threat to Taiwan, Kinmen or the waters off northern Taiwan.
However, the bureau warned that the storm’s outer periphery could still bring downpours, especially in the south.
Photo: Yeh Yung-chien, Taipei Times
The bureau put the probability of precipitation at between 80 percent and 90 percent in Greater Tainan, Greater Kaohsiung and Pingtung County; between 50 percent and 70 percent in central and southeastern Taiwan as well as Penghu and Kinmen; and between 40 percent and 50 percent in northern and eastern parts of the nation, including Matsu. The bureau also warned of possible landslides in mountainous areas and said people living in coastal areas should remain aware of the possibility of high waves and strong winds.
Meanwhile, in Chiayi County, minor rockfalls on Alishan (阿里山) caused by continuous rainfall resulted in the temporary closure of several sections of mountain road at 10pm on Tuesday.
The roads were reopened at 7am yesterday, the Directorate- General of Highways said.
In Hengchun Township (恆春), Pingtung County, which was heavily flooded when Typhoon Nanmadol swept over Taiwan, floodwater began receding in most areas yesterday as the rain let up.
More than 2,700 soldiers helped the township’s residents clear roads and clean up their homes.
As a result of the flooding, Hengchun was the only township in Taiwan where schools and offices were closed yesterday.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater