Taipei: Taiwan's Central Weather Administration (CWA) said Friday that a localized "Strong Wind Advisory" function on its website will officially go online in December. The agency said that after months of testing, the service, which people can use to check on the specific wind conditions in a city district, county township, or smaller city, will go online in December.
According to Focus Taiwan, the new function, which began testing in March 2025, will provide users of the CWA website with district and township-specific wind information for the following 48 hours in three color codes, said Lo Ya-yin, deputy director of the CWA's Weather Forecast Center.
Starting officially in December, a yellow signal will warn that the wind in a specific location could measure between 6 and 8 on the Beaufort scale over the next two days, with wind speeds reaching 39 kilometers per hour and gusts starting at 62 kph.
An orange signal will caution that average wind conditions could fall within a 9-11 range on the Beaufort scale over the next two days, with wind speeds reaching 75 kph and gusts starting at 103 kph.
A red signal, the most severe classification that would normally be used ahead of typhoons, will show that a specific region could see winds in a 12-14 range on the Beaufort scale within the next two days, with average wind speeds reaching 118 kph and gusts starting at 149 kph.