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Typhoon Megi on its way

A road in Southern Taiwan, repaired 10 days after a previous typhoon.

Tropical Storm Megi on its way

A road in Southern Taiwan, repaired 10 days after a previous typhoon.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Sea warnings could be issued Sunday evening at the earliest as Tropical Storm Megi turned into a typhoon and made its way toward Southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Bureau said Saturday.
The storm was likely to envelop all of the island on Tuesday while making landfall in Taitung County, some forecasters said.
Megi, the Korean word for catfish, only just originated in the Pacific near Guam, but weather experts already predict it will turn into one of the three fiercest typhoons of the year.
Just earlier this month, Typhoon Meranti passed close to Southern Taiwan, lashing Taitung, Pingtung, Kaohsiung, Penghu and Kinmen without even making landfall. Only three days later, Typhoon Malakas moved up north along the east coast.
After sea warnings are issued possibly late on Sunday, land warnings for Megi might follow at noon on Monday, with rain reaching as far as Northern Taiwan.
One of the possibilities was that the eye of the storm would cross Southern Taiwan on Tuesday, with landfall in Taitung County and the eye leaving land from Pingtung or Kaohsiung to move into the Taiwan Straits late Tuesday or early Wednesday, forecasters said. The precise route of the storm was still not completely possible to predict with complete accuracy, the weather bureau cautioned.
On Saturday morning, Megi was situated 1,800 kilometers east-southeast of Taiwan’s most southerly point, and moving west-northwest at a speed of 22 km per hour.