Northern Taiwan can expect to see sporadic showers or thunderstorms with the possibility of localized heavy rain today and tomorrow due to the effect of a tropical depression, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said this morning.
Brief afternoon showers could also occur in other areas around the country during this period, with a chance of heavy rain in some mountainous regions as the tropical depression's outer bands affect Taiwan, the CWA said.
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As of 8am, the depression (TD10) that was formerly Tropical Storm Francisco was 290km northeast of Taipei, moving west at 15kph, CWA data showed.
The agency has also issued heavy rain advisories for Keelung, Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, Taichung and Yilan County.
The CWB defines heavy rain as accumulated rainfall of 80mm or more within 24 hours or 40mm or more in an hour.
Independent meteorologist Wu Der-rong (吳德榮) said that TD10 and Tropical Storm Co-May were rotating counterclockwise under a Fujiwara effect, a phenomenon that occurs when two nearby storm vortices move around each other.
Tropical Storm Co-May is currently moving northeast and is expected to gradually weaken after passing over Luzon Island in the northern Philippines, Wu said.
Meanwhile, another tropical storm, Krosa, which has formed in waters north of Guam in the Western Pacific, would not have a direct impact on Taiwan, Wu said.
Due to the influence of TD10 and Co-May, wet weather can be expected across northern and central Taiwan into the weekend, Wu said.
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