The Central Weather Bureau has lifted its land warning for Typhoon Mitag.

The warning was lifted at 5:30 this morning.

And schools and offices are open as usual islandwide today - with the
exception of Taoyuan's Fu-Xing District, where they remain closed.

The weather bureau says its sea warning is likely to be lifted this
afternoon.

The storm skirted the north and northeast coasts overnight and is currently
located some 190-kilometers north-northeast of Keelung and moving in a
northerly direction at 19-kilometers-an-hour.

The storm still has a radius of 180-kilometers, but it is strengthening as it
moves away from Taiwan and Mitag is now packing sustained wind speeds of
137-kilometers-an-hour, with gusts of up to 173-kilometers-an-hour.

According to the weather bureau, if the storm continues on its current
projected path Mitag will skirt China's Zhe-Jiang Province today before
veering in a northeasterly direction to move into the Korea Strait and
threaten South Korea and Japan.