An animation of radar images shows Super Typhoon Nepartak barreling toward landfall on Taiwan on July 7, 2016. (Source: Taiwan Central Weather Bureau) As I'm writing this at 2:30 pm on Thursday in Colorado, Super Typhoon Nepartak is reported to be storming ashore on the southeastern coast of Taiwan with wind gusts up to about 180 miles per hour. I'm not sure of the storm's sustained wind speed at landfall; we'll have to wait for that. But as of earlier today, Nepartak had managed to hold on to Category 5 strength, which it has sustained for almost two days. On Wednesday, the storm attained a peak wind speed of 175 miles per hour. Video captured by James Reynolds of Earth Uncut TV shows violent rainfall tearing through Taitung city during the evening local time: https://twitter.com/EarthUncutTV/status/751133526582398976
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