2023-10-05 02:57:00
Taiwan recorded record winds from Typhoon Koinu, the territory’s central weather service said Thursday. Gusts of up to 95.2 meters per second were measured on Orchid Island.
This corresponds to winds blowing at 352.7 km/h. This is ‘a new record for Taiwan’, the meteorological services said.
Taiwanese authorities canceled more than 100 international and domestic flights on Wednesday and closed schools in parts of the south of the island, ahead of the expected arrival of Typhoon Koinu, the second to hit the territory in a month.
More than 200 people were also evacuated for fear of landslides in the south of the island. The typhoon was initially expected to hit the southern island of Taiwan, but a meteorological forecaster said Thursday that this path was now ‘uncertain’.
Taiwan experiences frequent tropical storms from May to November, but Typhoon Haikui in early September was the first to hit the island in four years, bringing torrential rain, strong winds and forcing nearly 8,000 people to evacuate their homes. residence.
After the Taiwan region, the typhoon is expected to head towards the eastern coast of China’s Guangdong province, according to the Hong Kong Meteorological Observatory.
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