Typhoon Nuri might not pose a direct threat to Taiwan, as the typhoon has veered slightly west as it heads northward, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
As of 5:30pm, the center was located 300km south of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻). It was moving northwest at a speed of 15kph. The radius of the storm was 200km.
Chen Yi-liang (陳怡良), a section chief at the bureau’s forecast center, said the typhoon had moved slightly northward between 2:30pm and 5:30pm yesterday, but was likely to continue moving to the west of the Bashi Channel (巴士海峽).
“The typhoon may weaken after it enters the region,” Chen said, referring to west of the channel, where conditions could impede its development.
Chen said that the “chances of the bureau issuing a land alert are low.”
The bureau maintained its sea alert for vessels operating in the Bashi Channel and Dongsha Island (東沙群島), as well as those south of the Taiwan Strait.
It also issued a heavy rain alert to residents in the east, Hengchun and the mountainous areas in the south because the typhoon’s circumfluence could start bringing rain to these regions.
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The lowest temperature in a low-lying area recorded early yesterday morning was in Miaoli County’s Gongguan Township (公館), at 6.8°C, due to a strong cold air mass and the effect of radiative cooling, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. In other areas, Chiayi’s East District (東區) recorded a low of 8.2°C and Yunlin County’s Huwei Township (虎尾) recorded 8.5°C, CWA data showed. The cold air mass was at its strongest from Saturday night to the early hours of yesterday. It brought temperatures down to 9°C to 11°C in areas across the nation and the outlying Kinmen and Lienchiang (Matsu) counties,
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