We're on typhoon watch here on the island. Typhoon Noul has made landfall at the tip of the Philippines and is now heading our way. We really need the rain but can do without the wind. The latest news I heard was that the storm was turning north and may just give Taiwan's east coast a glancing blow, but when I just looked at the satellite picture it looks like the storm is bigger than the whole of Taiwan. It's hard to imagine getting only a brushing with something so immense.

There's also a second typhoon building behind Noul so we'll keep an eye on that one too. We'd planned on going to the beach at the southern tip of Taiwan next weekend. The beaches there were closed today because of the current typhoon and tourists have been evacuated from the east coast islands. Hopefully we'll be able to squeeze our weekend get-away in between storms.