The rainy weather is forecast to continue for the next few days, despite Typhoon Goni having moved away from the nation, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
CWB data showed that as of 8pm yesterday, the center of the typhoon was 260km east of Taipei, moving north-northeast at 31kph, and that the radius of the storm had shrunk 200km to 150km.
The weather bureau lifted the sea warning for the typhoon at 8:30pm yesterday.
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The typhoon’s circumfluence mainly brought rain to the northern, northeastern and eastern regions.
Bureau forecaster Wu Wan-hua (伍婉華) said that the typhoon would be followed by a low-pressure system that would continue to affect the nation.
“We forecast the weather in the next few days will be unstable,” she said.
National Central University atmospheric sciences associate professor Daniel Wu (吳德榮) said that a southwest wind would blow over the South China Sea for the next four or five days.
Although strong, Wu said the southwest wind is different from the southwest jet stream, which generally brings torrential rainfall to the nation’s southwest.
He also said that the northeast wind would blow over the southern part of China.
He said this would form a low-pressure system near Taiwan. The convergence of the low-pressure system and humidity would increase the chances of rain nationwide, he said.
Wu said that those heading to Japan must beware of the movement of Typhoon Goni as it moves toward Okinawa today and Kyushu tomorrow.
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