Sea alert for In-Fa could be issued today, CWB saysBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterA sea alert for Typhoon In-Fa could be issued this morning as it moves toward Taiwan, although it remains uncertain if its center would make landfall, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday. As of 2pm yesterday, In-Fa was classified as a tropical storm and was centered 800km east of Taipei, moving west at 13kph with maximum sustained winds of 101kph. In other news, the bureau yesterday announced that it had completed the installation and renovation of 576 automatic weather observation stations nationwide. The bureau has since 1985 budgeted funding annually to build the 24-hour automatic weather observation system, it said. By 2005, 257 rain observation stations and 119 weather observation stations had been installed.

Source: Taipei Times July 20, 2021 15:56 UTC