CWB may issue sea warning for typhoon

The storm, which was located about 800 kilometers south of Taiwan's southernmost tip of Eluanbi around noon yesterday, was weakening as it moved in a north-northwesterly direction toward Taiwan at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, the officials said.

They continued that the sixth storm reported in the western Pacific this year could be reclassified as a tropical storm or even a low pressure system within the next 24 hours.

"The following 24 hours will be crucial for the weather bureau to monitor the typhoon and decide what to do," said Wu Teh-jung, director the CWB's Weather Forecast Center.

"There are still many variables which could alter the development of the typhoon," Wu said.

Once the typhoon enters the South China Sea over the next couple of days, its intensity will be reduced by a "wind shear effect" that is expected to be created by a clash between a Pacific high pressure system in the upper atmosphere and a low pressure system in the lower atmosphere, Wu suggested. "If so, there is no need for the CWB to issue a typhoon warning," he said.

But if Fengshen maintains the intensity of a typhoon after passing the South China Sea into the Taiwan Straits, then the CWB may issue a sea warning against the storm early this morning at the earliest, Wu continued.

Temperatures were high islandwide yesterday and are expected to remain so today, with the mercury shooting up to 37 degrees Celsius in the north. The mercury will fall only after rains brought by the storm arrive on Tuesday or Wednesday, Wu predicted.

Wu called people to take measures against sunshine and drink more water.

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