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KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan shut down on Wednesday, grounding hundreds of flights and closing schools, offices and financial markets ahead of the arrival of a weakening Typhoon Krathon ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan issued a land warning on Monday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Krathon, which has strengthened into the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane and is expected to cross the ...
A research supercomputer shared between the Central Weather Administration and CAA was listed by TOP500 as the world's 313rd most powerful computer in 2002, obtaining 0.2 TFlop/s with 25 300MHz cores. [15] In February 2024 the CWA inaugurated a new computer weather forecasting system, based on Fujitsu FX1000 high speed computers. Aggregate ...
Meanwhile, Taiwan's Central Weather Administration issued maritime warnings for the Bashi Channel, leading to the evacuation of more than 11,000 people and the mobilization of nearly 40,000 soldiers for rescue efforts; at least 13 people were killed across the island, including nine from the Antai Tian-Sheng Memorial Hospital fire in Pingtung ...
In July 2023, Typhoon Doksuri drifted to Southern Taiwan, raising warnings in various places. [21] 278,000 homes later lost power, [22] with one woman dying in Taiwan. [23] In August, Typhoon Haikui directly hit Taiwan, with 8,000 people evacuating. [24] 217,000 houses lost electricity with the typhoon, with multiple floods, and rainfall. [25]
Koinu was moving northwest with sustained winds of 144 kph (89 mph) and gusts of up to 180 kph (112 mph), according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau. In the Philippines, which will avoid the ...
[26] [27] The following day at 1:40 p.m. local time, Kong-rey made landfall in Chenggong, Taitung in eastern Taiwan. This made Kong-rey the first typhoon in Taiwan's history to make landfall after mid-October, [ 28 ] and it was the largest storm to hit since Typhoon Herb in 1996. [ 29 ]
HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan curtailed its annual Han Kuang war games and readied emergency equipment on Tuesday as Typhoon Gaemi barrelled towards the island, with the government issuing a ...