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A very busy day, and not a very nice day at all across in Asia. We've got three storms you can see here.

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This is Lionrock. This is Namtheun. And this one here, this is Kompasu.

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I'm gonna start with Kompasu. You can see the eye very clearly there.

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The smallest storm of the three in terms of mass of size, but certainly right now [it's] the strongest.

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We've got winds nearly 170 kilometers an hour,

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and if typhoons in this region were numbered and given categories the same way that hurricanes are in the Atlantic,

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this would be a category 2, soon in the next 24 hours to become potentially a category 3.

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Now you can see where it is in the East China Sea.

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It's about 300 kilometers southeast of Kadena, Japan, and then it's gonna be pushing into the Yellow Sea

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and expected to make landfall up into the Korean Peninsula,

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but it's a strong enough storm that it will have an impact all the way along the east coast of China.

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Certainly, Shanghai, you'll feel it, and possibly also through western areas of Japan,

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so that's still a few days away from actually making landfall, but the effects already being felt.

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Then we come to Lionrock.

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Now we were saying yesterday about this one that the actual track [is] very uncertain here, and it still is up to a certain point.

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We've got winds at about 100 kilometers an hour.

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This one right now is about 390 kilometers to the southeast of Hong Kong, and you can see the forecast track.

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So not moving particularly quickly and getting very close towards Taiwan,

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so certainly feeling the effects there across much of Taiwan.

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But then just off the northern tip about 40 kilometers to the northeast of Taipei we have just got this tropical storm Namtheun.

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Now this is going to take a rather unusual track heading southwestwards down the Taiwan Straits,

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and in fact, what's gonna be happening...

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it's expected that the steering influences of this storm will actually be governed by the position of Lionrock.

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So it's actually likely at the moment that they're sort of gonna come together and actually merge.

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So, the forecast track thereafter is still a little bit uncertain.