Hundreds of flights cancelled as Typhoon Champi shuts Taiwan

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   Hundreds of flights cancelled as Typhoon Champi shuts Taiwan

   BBC NewsPublished Oct 23, 2026Checked Oct 23, 2026

   “Taiwan is bracing for Champi's worst effects on Saturday Hundreds of flights in the East Asia region were cancelled on Friday as powerful Typhoon Champi roared close to Taiwan's north-east coast. Schools and offices in Taiwan were shut as Champi neared the island. While it is uncertain if it will make landfall, the storm was forecast to bring 90cm (35in) of rain and strong winds to the north-east until Saturday. One person died after being swept away by waves, authorities said. The storm also injured 171 people and forced 1,000 others to evacuate. Champi is the latest in a string of intense typhoons as a Super El Niño heats up the Pacific Ocean and fuels storms. At its peak earlier this week, it was the planet's strongest storm of the year so far. On Friday afternoon, Champi was packing wind gusts of 191km/h (119mph) . After passing Taiwan's north-eastern tip and the Okinawa islands in southern Japan, Champi is expected to hover over the waters off China's eastern coast, before curving farther to the north-east to Japan's main island. Weather agencies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan forecast that the eye of the storm is expected to pass without making landfall in Taiwan, However, a forecaster in Taiwan's Central Weather Administration told Reuters that they could not rule this out completely - especially if the storm "stalls, loops or wobbles from side to side" as it approaches.”

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   Tropical cyclone (Wikipedia)

   WikipediaChecked Oct 23, 2026

   “A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is called a hurricane (), typhoon (), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply cyclone. A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean. A typhoon is the same thing which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, comparable storms are referred to as "tropical cyclones". In modern times, on average around 80 to 90 named tropical cyclones form each year around the world, over half of which develop hurricane-force winds of 65 kn (120 km/h; 75 mph) or more. Tropical cyclones typically form over large bodies of relatively warm water. They derive their energy through the evaporation of water from the ocean surface, which ultimately condenses into clouds and rain when moist air rises and cools to saturation.”

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   Typhoon-DIG: Distinguishing, Identifying and Geo-Tagging Typhoon-Related Social Media Posts in Taiwan

   International Conference on Big Data Analytics (ICBDA) (Li & Chen)Published Mar 16, 2024Checked Oct 23, 2026

   “Typhoons are one of the major hazards in East Asia, including Taiwan, resulting in substantial damage to people and the economy. The development of a real-time hazardous event and damage tracking system is essential for effective typhoon response. While social media offers a valuable platform for sharing disaster information, the challenge of organizing and geotagging posts related to typhoons remains unsolved. In this paper, we introduce Typhoon-DIG, a framework designed for distinguishing, identifying, and geotagging social media posts related to typhoon disasters. Post data is collected from major Taiwanese social media platforms, and it employed the BERT deep learning language model to filter relevant posts and identify geolocation information within the texts for geotagging. Our proposed framework presents practical methods for data collection and organization in disaster tracking system, thereby providing robust support for subsequent disaster assessment and management.”

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   Development of Safe Taiwan Information System (SATIS) for Typhoon Early Warning in Taiwan

   DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (Su et al.)Published Aug 1, 2010Checked Oct 23, 2026

   “There are four main modules integrated into the subsystem including the rainfall monitoring and forecasting, the estimation of potential inundation areas, the estimation of potential landslide and debris flows, and the management of disaster information. The results of hazard risk analysis which include potential rainfall distribution, inundation and landslide risk areas, early warning messages, and total suggestion over the next 24 hours are finally demonstrated by decision support subsystem in the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) and help the commander to make the right decisions in disaster preparedness and response phases. In the future, SATIS will integrate social and economic information into the assessment of natural hazard vulnerability. It can help the commander to know the high-risk areas and make the right decision.”

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   Tropical cyclones in 2026 (Wikipedia)

   WikipediaChecked Oct 23, 2026

   “In 2026, tropical cyclones have been forming in seven major bodies of water, commonly known as tropical cyclone basins. Tropical cyclones will be named by various weather agencies when they attain maximum sustained winds of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). So far, 119 tropical cyclones have formed (excluding 3 unofficial tropical/subtropical depressions and 1 subtropical storm), and 80 of which have received an official name and/or attained tropical storm-force winds. The strongest system so far was Hurricane Polo in the Eastern Pacific basin, which attained 1-minute sustained winds of 285 km/h (180 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of 892 hPa (26.34 inHg). The deadliest system so far was Tropical Storm Maysak in the Western Pacific basin, which caused 171 deaths, while the costliest system was Typhoon Dolphin which caused US$4.12 billion in damages mainly in China, both systems in the Western Pacific basin. The accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for the year (seven basins combined), as calculated by Colorado State University (CSU), is 872 units overall, as of October 21.”