{"id":435675,"date":"2021-09-13T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T06:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=435675"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T08:01:53","slug":"taiwan-cancels-flights-as-weakened-typhoon-chanthu-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/taiwan-cancels-flights-as-weakened-typhoon-chanthu-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan cancels flights as weakened Typhoon Chanthu approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoon Chanthu weakened on Saturday as it approached Taiwan&#8217;s eastern coast and was unlikely to make landfall, meteorologists said, but strong winds left more than 100 flights and ferries cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Chanthu rapidly formed into a super typhoon in just 48 hours earlier this week threatening both the Philippines and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>But it was since downgraded to a medium storm and will likely avoid hitting Taiwan directly according to the island&#8217;s central weather bureau. <\/p>\n<p>The outer edge of the storm was lashing eastern and southern Taiwan with strong winds and rains on Saturday night after it grazed the northeastern tip of the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoon Chanthu weakened on Saturday as it approached Taiwan&#8217;s eastern coast and was unlikely to make landfall, meteorologists said, but strong winds left more than 100 flights and ferries cancelled. Chanthu rapidly formed into a super typhoon in just 48 hours earlier this week threatening both the Philippines and Taiwan. But it was since downgraded to a medium storm and will likely avoid hitting Taiwan directly according to the island&#8217;s central weather bureau. The outer edge of the storm was lashing eastern and southern Taiwan with strong winds and rains on Saturday night after it grazed the northeastern tip of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}