Localities asked to keep close watch on typhoon Nanmadol
The Central Steering Committee for Storm and Flood Prevention and the National Committee for Search and Rescue issued a warning on Saturday night about the Nanmadol, a strong typhoon that has lashed Philippines, saying there would probably be complicated developments.
The warning was sent in an urgent message to committees for storm and flood prevention, to search and rescue groups of coastal provinces from Quang Binh to Quang Ngai, and to the ministries of National Defence, Foreign Affairs, Transportation, and Agriculture and Rural Development.
In the message, the committee asked local agencies to inform ship owners operating offshore of the position and developments of the typhoon, so that they could avoid the dangerous region.
The agencies were also requested to keep a close watch on floods and stay in touch with ship owners.
According to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting, at 7pm yesterday the eye of the typhoon was at 21.4 degrees north latitude and 121 degrees east longitude, on the Taiwan and Philippines straits.
The maximum wind speed near the typhoon eye reached 118 km to 149 km per hour.
The centre forecast that in the next 24 to 48 hours, the typhoon would move in a northwest direction at a speed of 5 km per hour.
At 7pm tomorrow, the typhoon's eye was predi cted to be 100km southeast of China's Fukien Province. The maximum wind speed is forecast to be between 75 km and 102 km per hour.