Typhoon Suli is coming to Taiwan

Typhoon Suli is threatening and is likely to be the first typhoon to invade Taiwan this year Taiwan's major counties and cities began to strengthen their vigilance and carry out disaster prevention work yesterday Major weekend activities in major cities have been postponed or suspended However, the weather bureau predicted that Suli would only be "strong" tonight, so the whole station will go to work as usual today At 8:30 p.m last night, the Central Meteorological Bureau issued an alert for typhoon at sea and on land The maximum wind speed near the center of Suli fell to 48 meters per second, becoming a moderate typhoon From tonight to tomorrow, the weather bureau predicts that Taiwan will be the most affected time by typhoon, and the northern, North Central and northeast regions will be shrouded in the storm circle The General Administration of highways called on the public to avoid sightseeing in beiheng, Zhongheng, Suhua and other mountainous areas The meteorological bureau pointed out that since this afternoon, due to the impact of typhoon, there have been partial heavy rain or heavy rain in Yilan and Xinbei area, partial heavy rain in the eastern mountain area, and local heavy rain in the eastern area In the evening, there will be local heavy rain in the north of the central part, super heavy rain in the mountain area, and local heavy rain or heavy rain in the South and southeast mountain areas The public must pay attention to landslides, rockfalls, earth rock flows and flash floods In low-lying areas, they should be careful to prevent flooding Although the central intensity of typhoon Suli weakened to moderate, but its structure is solid, and its direction of travel may become a serious threat to North Taiwan's "Northwest Taiwan", which will bring strong winds and heavy rain The central and local governments opened disaster response center yesterday, waiting for it The Executive Yuan, Changjiang Yihua, yesterday instructed the Ministry of the interior, the Ministry of economy, the Ministry of transport, the Agricultural Commission, the Ministry of national defense and other central ministries and local governments to continuously monitor the typhoon dynamics, urge their disaster prevention and response personnel to do a good job in emergency response, and strengthen various preparedness measures The typhoon affected Taiwan during the holiday period The government's propaganda and disaster prevention work also included reminding the public to avoid activities in the mountains The Ministry of national defense was also ordered to inform the relevant forces involved in the preparation and provide necessary support to the local government The island's public transport services are equipped with standard operating procedures for wind price and flood control The high-speed railway will stop when the wind force reaches level 11 gust Taitie was stopped when it was raining heavily, when the rain was over the track, or when it reached level 10 gust When the actual instantaneous wind force of the elevated and plane sections of Taipei MRT is above level 11, or the average wind force within 10 minutes is above level 10, the operation of the MRT will be suspended with the consent of the Beijing municipal emergency response center The operation of Maokong cable car will be suspended when the gust reaches a certain degree during the typhoon In response to the typhoon, airlines pay close attention to the typhoon trend to adjust flight services China Airlines, Singapore Airlines, EVA and other major airlines maintain normal service today China Airlines yesterday contacted passengers to provide telephone contact so that they can be informed immediately when the flight service is affected by typhoon; Singapore Airlines will contact passengers via SMS The traffic service of Taiwan's outlying islands has been affected by the typhoon After the Central Meteorological Bureau issued a typhoon warning yesterday morning, the transportation ships from Taitung to and from the outlying islands posted a notice, stopping for three days, and yesterday drove 8 voyages to evacuate 2300 tourists from the Green Island, and another 2270 tourists planning to go to the Green Island cancelled their trip yesterday Some off Island flights have also been cancelled Due to the typhoon, Gongliao International Marine Music Festival in Xinbei city was postponed; the children's play festival held by Yilan county government will be closed for two days Taoyuan, Taichung, Kaohsiung and Tainan also cancelled some weekend activities.