Meteorologist Huang En-hong, from the Taiwan Central Meteorological Administration, revealed hours before his expected arrival in the country.
Typhoon Gaemi is expected to be "the strongest" to hit Taiwan in the last eight years, the island's meteorological authorities said this Wednesday, hours before its expected arrival in the country.
"Gaemi is expected to be the strongest typhoon in the last eight years to hit Taiwan since Typhoon Nepartak in 2016," meteorologist Huang En-hong from Taiwan's Central Meteorological Administration told AFP.
It is recalled that Taiwan closed offices, schools and tourist sites today, before the arrival of a powerful typhoon that has already worsened the seasonal rains in the Philippines, where it caused at least 12 deaths and displaced 600,000 people.
The outer bands of Typhoon Gaemi brought heavy rain to much of Taiwan, where it is expected to arrive this evening (local time) in the north of the territory. Fishing boats pulled into port amid turbulent seas, while air travelers rushed to board flights abroad ahead of the storm's arrival, which led to several cancellations.
This morning, Gaemi was off the island, moving at 13 kilometers per hour, with maximum sustained winds of 162 kilometers per hour and gusts of 198 kilometers per hour, reported the Central Meteorological Administration.
On Tuesday, a landslide buried a rural shed in the city of Agoncillo, in the province of Batangas, and the bodies of a pregnant woman and three children, aged between 9 and 15, were unearthed in the morning today, bringing the country's death toll to 12.
