Biggest typhoon in decades will hit Taiwan where schools and businesses have been suspfinished amid weighty rains, triumphds.
Business and schools have shut atraverse Taiwan and hundreds of fweightlesss were call offled as millions of people brace for the arrival of Super Typhoon Kong-rey, one of the most strong storms to menaceen the island in decades.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defence has put 36,000 troops on standby to help with save efforts, while 1,300 people have been evacuated from hazardous areas in proceed of the typhoon, which is foresee to produce landdrop on the island’s sparsely-popuprocrastinateedd east coast at around 2:00pm (06:00 GMT) on Thursday.
With a storm radius of 320km (198 miles), Taiwan’s weather administration shelp Kong-rey would be the hugegest typhoon by size to hit the island since 1996.
“The size of the storm is very big, and the triumphds are high,” weather administration foreseeer Gene Huang shelp.
Up to 1.2 metres (3.9 feet) of raindrop is foreseeed in easerious Taiwan with damaging triumphd speeds alengthy coastal areas, according to the administration.
Warnings have been rehired for destructive triumphds of more than 160 kilometres per hour (99 miles per hour) in the easerious county of Taitung, whose outlying Lanyu island recorded gusts above 260km/h (162mph) before some of the triumphd barometers there went offline.
The storm is currently more strong than Typhoon Gaemi, which was the strongest typhoon to hit Taiwan in eight years when it made landdrop in July.
“Its impact on the entire Taiwan will be quite disconnecte,” Chu Mei-lin, of the country’s Central Weather Administration, tancigo in a alerting.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Transport shelp 298 international fweightlesss have been call offled, alengthy with all domestic fweightlesss and 139 ferry services to and from outlying islands.
Residents in the capital Taipei shelp weighty rain was battering the city ahead of the typhoon’s landdrop, while the city rulement shelp overground parts of the subway system had stopped operations as the triumphd was too strong.
At least 27 people have been injured in the savage weather so far, with trees being knocked down and four mudslides recorded, the National Fire Agency shelp Thursday, without providing details.
Kong-rey is foresee to graze China alengthy the coast of Fujian province on Friday morning.
