Tropical Storm Pulasan may affect Taiwan’s weather later this week

A tropical depression east of the Philippines intensified into a tropical storm last night, and is forecast to track north of Taiwan later this week, potentially affecting the weather as early as Wednesday evening.

Tropical Storm Pulasan, the 14th named tropical storm in the northwest Pacific this year, was generated from tropical depression TD16 at around 8:00 pm Sunday evening. According to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration, Pulasan is currently located 2,450 kilometers east-southeast of Hengchun Peninsula, and is moving in a northwesterly direction.

Pulasan is expected to pass through Japan’s Okinawa island chain on a similar trajectory to Typhoon Babinca, which made landfall in Shanghai, China, at around 7:30 am this morning. However, Pulasan is expected to track slightly south, closer to Taiwan, and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) forecasts a southwesterly turn before reaching the coast of China. The JMA forecast brings most of northern and western Taiwan into the storm radius.

Wu Shengyu, of Taiwan’s Weather Risk company, said that Pulasan has a loose structure, and surface conditions in its path are not conducive to intensification. It is expected to remain a tropical storm, and it is expected to move quickly, and to quickly dissipate after making landfall in Zhejiang Province, China, on Friday, September 20.

Another tropical depression, TD17, also formed east of the Philippines at 8:00 am this morning. TD17 may also intensify into a tropical storm as early as tomorrow, and is forecast to track across the South China sea towards the coast of southern China.

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