Typhoon in East Asia

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Typhoon Jelawat Looms Off

 

Taiwan, Bound for Disputed

 

Islands

Bloomberg,

28 September, 2012

Taiwan  warned of floods and landslides as the second super typhoon in two weeks ripped through the East China Sea and headed for islands where Chinese and Japanese vessels are in a territorial standoff.

With gusts as fast as 115 knots (132 miles or 213 kilometers an hour), Super Typhoon Jelawat was 410 kilometers east-southeast of Kaohsiung at 11 p.m. yesterday, the Hong Kong Observatory reported. The storm is expected to move north at about 14 kilometers an hour toward the seas east of Taiwan.

Jelawat follows Sanba, which lashed southern Japan and South Korea earlier this month, grounding aircraft and disrupting electricity. Jelawat is forecast to travel northeast away from Taiwan from today and may cross islands claimed by China, Japan and Taiwan on a path toward the southern coast of Japan, according to the U.S Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

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