Tuesday, 7 August 2007

Severe Tropical Storm Pabuk Bears Down on Southern Taiwan.

Severe tropical storm Pabuk is bearing down on southern Taiwan and will bring strong winds and heavy rain.

According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency at 8am Taiwan time the centre of severe tropical storm Pabuk was located 510km south east of Taipei with maximum sustained winds of 69 mph.

The Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan have issued a typhoon warning and expect the storm to make landfall just north of the east coast town of Taidong.

The name Pabuk, a type of large fresh water fish, was contributed to the regional list of names by Laos.

Severe Tropical storm Pabuk is the sixth storm of the 2007 Pacific typhoon season. Last week typhoon Usagi struck southern Japan with damaging winds and heavy rain

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