Taiwan is bracing as a class 5 super typhoon endure down on its coastline . Typhoon Nepartak is wait to bring torrential rainfall and enormous waves in its wake , meaning Taiwan , and later on mainland China , could be in for some serious implosion therapy . This comes just Day after key China experiencedone of the deadliest flood - related catastrophe in its history .
What ’s astonishing about this storm is not only how potent it is — asUSA Today bank bill , it ’s the strong first typhoon of the season to hit Taiwan in over 50 years — but how chop-chop it intensified , going from a tropical storm on Monday good afternoon to a category 4 crack typhoon on Tuesday . ( A super typhoon is a tropic Pacific tempest with maximum free burning winds of at least 150 mph ) . Yesterday , the violent storm reached its peak intensity andachieved category 5 status , with winds howling up to 175 mph .
As meteorologist Jeff Masterspoints outover at Weather Underground , ocean waters a full 1 - 2 degree Celsius ( 1.8 – 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit ) hot than common have flow energy into the storm as it edge toward the coastline .
Typhoon Nepartak isexpected to make landfallover Taiwan today and reduce in intensity moderately before churn up the coast of southeasterly China . The onslaught of wind and rain could inundate regions of China that are still whirl from a hebdomad of monsoon - bear on downpours that flooded city andleft at least 181 people all in or miss .
Taiwan often finds itself a punching bag for some of the tropic Pacific’sbiggest and baddest storms , and on the heels ofone of the most vivid violent storm seasonsin memory , it ’s fix for the bad . Some 35,000 soldiery have already been mobilized to aid in implosion therapy and saving functioning . Now , there ’s nothing to do but hold off .
[ USA Today , Weather Underground , NASA Earth Observatory ]
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