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Typhoon Gaemi Heads for China’s Coast After Pummeling Taiwan
The tropical cyclone was weakening as it crossed the Taiwan Strait on Thursday afternoon, and was forecast to make landfall later in the day.
Typhoon Gaemi was weakening as it churned toward mainland China on Thursday, hours after the storm’s powerful winds and heavy rains submerged roads and forced the suspension of hundreds of flights in nearby Taiwan.
The tropical cyclone made landfall on Taiwan on Wednesday night with wind speeds equivalent to those of a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, a U.S. Navy forecasting organization. As of Thursday the storm had killed at least six people in Taiwan and the Philippines.
Gaemi was moving across the Taiwan Strait early Thursday afternoon. It was expected to make landfall in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian in the late afternoon or evening with the force of a Category 1 hurricane.
Tracking Typhoon Gaemi
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Taiwan, an island of about 23 million people, lies about 100 miles from the Chinese mainland.
Fuzhou, Fujian’s provincial capital, banned group gatherings, closed schools and tourist attractions, and ordered the closure of nonessential businesses as the storm neared. Other coastal Chinese provinces were evacuating tourists and asking ships to take shelter.
The storm was forecast to bring heavy rainfall to other parts of China, including Beijing, while moving inland over the next five days, the China Meteorological Administration said. Southern China has already faced weeks of heavy rain and deadly flooding.
In Taiwan, some local weather stations were recording nearly four feet of rain from Typhoon Gaemi as of Thursday morning. The island’s Central Weather Administration estimated that the storm could drop nearly six feet of total rainfall.
More than 600,000 electricity customers in Taiwan have experienced power outages since Wednesday, according to Taipower, a state utility. About 15 percent of them were still without power on Thursday afternoon.
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