Typhoon Podul slammed into Taiwan’s Taitung County on Wednesday, forcing school and government office closures across nine cities, including Kaohsiung and Tainan. Moving at 36 km/h toward the Taiwan Strait and China,

Typhoon Podul brings heavy rain to southern China after injuring scores in Taiwan - Typhoon forces nearly 8,000 people from homes in Taiwan before making another landfall in China

According to the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO), the tropical cyclone Podul will enter within 800km of our city by the morning of August 13, and the Standby Signal No. 1 will be issued. While it’s difficult to say how strong the typhoon will become,