A tropical storm has formed in the Pacific Ocean, but whether it would affect Taiwan remains to be seen, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.
Tropical Storm Mawar, as of 8am yesterday, was about 3,420km east-southeast of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan’s southernmost tip, moving at 13 kilometers per hour (kph), the bureau said.
The storm was carrying maximum sustained winds of 83kph and gusts of 108kph near the center, and is expected to move north-northwesterly.
It is unlikely to affect Taiwan’s weather in the short term, as it is still far away, the bureau said.
Daniel Wu (吳德榮), a former Weather Forecast Center director at the bureau, who is an adjunct associate professor of atmospheric sciences at National Central University, said Mawar has strengthened east of the Philippines and is expected to become a typhoon.
However, Mawar’s path in the next 10 days is uncertain, and whether it hits Taiwan remains to be seen, he added.
Due to an approaching cloud system, wet weather is forecast to return today, with showers or thunderstorms forecast overnight.
From Wednesday to Saturday, sunny skies would prevail in the country, and temperatures are forecast to rise, coupled with brief scattered rainfall in the afternoon, Wu said.
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