Tokyo\/Taipei \u2013 Typhoon Bavi was passing near Japan\u2019s Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture on Saturday morning, bringing strong winds and rains to the area, according to the weather agency.<\/p>\n
The typhoon, packing maximum sustained winds of 40 meters per second and maximum gusts of 55 meters per second, was moving north-northwest as of 10 a.m. in an area some 90 kilometers from Okinawa\u2019s Miyako Island, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.<\/p>\n
While the storm was expected to pass through the area in the afternoon, the agency warned of continued strong winds and rain.<\/p>\n
Taiwan\u2019s government, meanwhile, has evacuated more than 14,000 people \u2060from mainly mountainous areas as the island shut down for the medium-strength typhoon, which is expected to bring a deluge of rain and \u200bstrong wind in exposed areas.<\/p>\n
While Bavi, which \u200cis gradually \u200cweakening, will not make landfall on \u200bTaiwan, the government is taking all precautions to prevent loss of life, given forecasts for almost 1 meter of rain in some areas.<\/p>\n
Most of \u2060those evacuated were in areas in the north and east, with 917 international \u200bflights canceled as well \u2060as all 274 domestic flights.<\/p>\n
Almost all cities and counties across Taiwan \u2060declared a typhoon holiday \u200bfor Saturday, closing any offices \u200band schools that may have been open \u200bover \u200cthe weekend. The main north-south high speed rail line remained open, but with a reduced service.<\/p>\n
In the capital, Taipei, there was blustery \u200cwind and rain with some people still out on the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s OK, it\u2019s not that serious,\u201d said Taipei resident Yeh Mao-hsiung, 68, out for \u200ba \u200bmorning walk with his dog. \u201cIt\u2019s just a \u200blittle bit more wind.\u201d<\/p>\n
After passing by Taiwan \u2060to the northeast having crossed Japan\u2019s Sakishima Islands, a remote island chain that is part of Okinawa Prefecture, Bavi is forecast to hit \u200bthe eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou, home to 10 million people, early Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokyo\/Taipei \u2013 Typhoon Bavi was passing near Japan\u2019s Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture on Saturday morning, bringing strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,162,488,23579],"class_list":["post-56526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-okinawa","tag-japan","tag-okinawa","tag-taiwan","tag-typhoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}