Typhoon Holiday

Typhoon Fanapi is currently hitting Taiwan. Yesterday was a day of preparations - buying food (there was a run on milk), boarding up large glass windows, and school cancellations. The storm made landfall about 8:30am this morning, but we could hear the wind and rain all night.



What is a typhoon? A Pacific typhoon or tropical storm is a tropical cyclone that develops in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. Identical phenomena in the eastern north Pacific are called hurricanes, with tropical cyclones moving into the Western Pacific re-designated as typhoons.