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The Central Weather Administration says a tropical depression that formed
over the South China Sea earlier this week could develop into a tropical
storm later today.

If it does develop, it will become the first tropical storm of this year's
Pacific typhoon season and be named Wu-Tip.

The weather pattern is currently not forecast to directly affect Taiwan.

According to the weather administration, the system will move toward China's
Hainan Island and Guangdong Province.

However, its outer rain bands may affect the island from Thursday to
Saturday, bringing localized heavy rain - but heavy rain is possible in the
south and southeast.

The tropical depression is currently located some 900-kilometers southwest of
Eluanbi at the island's southernmost point and is moving in a
west-north-westerly direction at 9-kilometers per hour.