Northern Taiwan shut businesses and schools while airlines cancelled dozens of flights as the slow-moving Typhoon FalconPH skirted past the island’s northeast amid warnings of floods and high winds. | Reuters
A tree lies uprooted on a street as typhoon Khanun batters the area in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on August 2, 2023. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS.
TAIPEI — Northern Taiwan on Thursday shut businesses and schools while airlines cancelled dozens of flights as the slow-moving Typhoon Khanun skirted past the island’s northeast amid warnings of floods and high winds. Typhoon Khanun, categorized by Taiwan’s weather bureau as the second-strongest typhoon level, slowly headed towards its northeastern coast with maximum winds of 198 kph .As of 9:15 A.M. Taipei time , the eye of the typhoon was 360 km off Taipei in the East China Sea, heading in a westerly direction at around 5 kph.
The storm was expected to brush past Taiwan’s northern coast late on Thursday before making a sharp turn to the northeast on Friday, bringing total rainfall of up to 0.6 meter in mountainous central Taiwan and 0.3 meter of rain on the mountains near Taipei.
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