The Central Weather Administration says Typhoon Krathon is now expected to
make landfall tomorrow.

According to the administration's forecast center, the storm is likely to
veer in a northerly direction after making landfall and the center is not
ruling out that possibilty that it then rapid weakening and become a tropical
depression.

The forecast center says the typhoon has not moved much over the past several
hours as it sat motionless waters southwest of Kaohsiung.

It's now moving in northeasterly direction again at speeds of between 7 and
10-kilometers-an-hour and is now located some 140-kilometers southwest of
Kaohsiung.

Krathon is packing sustained wind speeds of 173-kilometers-an-hour, with
gusts of up to 209-kilometers-an-hour.

The storm's outer rim is now beginning to affect areas south of Taichung on
the west coast.

Rain alerts for most areas of the island are in effect.

The weather administration says from between this past Sunday morning and 8
o'clock this morning, Taitung's Jin-Zhen Mountain area has recorded the most
rainfall - at nearly 88-centimeters.

That's followed by Pingtung's Da-Han Mountain, which has recorded
73-centimeters of rainfall over the same period and the Qing-Shui Mountain
area in the Taroko National Park in Hualien, which has recorded
41--centimeters of rainfall.

Meanwhile, the Taiwan Railway Corporation is operating much scaled back
services today while metro services in Taipei, New Taipei, Taichung and
Kaohsiung are all operating on reduced schedules.