The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) yesterday said it was unlikely that Typhoon Nesat would hit Taiwan, but warned the system’s peripheral clouds would bring rain today.
Data from the bureau showed Nesat had strengthened from a tropical storm to a typhoon yesterday morning. As of 2pm, the radius of the storm had expanded to 220km and it was moving northwest at a speed of 19kph.
Although Nesat has become a typhoon, the bureau maintained that the chances of it directly hitting Taiwan were low. The typhoon is forecast to follow along the southern rim of a continental high air pressure system and move toward Guangdong and Hainan provinces in China, it said.
Meanwhile, the bureau said Tropical Storm Haitang would move toward Vietnam and would not affect Taiwan.
Haitang was moving west at a speed of 13kph, it said.
Nonetheless, chances of showers would be high in the northern, northeastern, eastern, southeastern and southern regions from today through Thursday because of Nesat’s peripheral clouds.
During this time, afternoon thunderstorms could also occur in the mountainous areas in central Taiwan.
Cloudy skies are forecast for the rest of the country.
Today, temperatures are forecast to be between 24?C and 32?C in the north, 24?C and 33?C in central areas, 25?C and 32?C in the south and 24?C and 30?C in the east.
Starting on Saturday, lows in the northern and northeastern regions could drop to 21?C because of a strong northeast monsoon.
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