Taiwan is bracing for a direct hit by powerful Typhoon Soudelor, which earlier this week earned the title of earth’s strongest storm of 2015.
Our friends over at Ocean Weather Services tell us that today at 15Z Typhoon Soudelor was centered about 183 nautical miles southeast of Taipei, Taiwan and was moving WNW at 10 knots, with max winds of about 105 knots and significant wave heights up to 38 feet.
Soudelor is expected make landfall and cross central Taiwan later today before making a second landfall in eastern China on Saturday.
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