(FAP)-- the center of this year's No. 3 Typhoon Gu Chao (Tropical Storm) is located on the ocean about 1420 kilometers east of Manila in the Philippines at 8: 00 this morning (Beijing time). It is 14.9 degrees north latitude and 134.2 degrees east longitude, and the maximum wind near the center is force 9 (23 meters per second). The lowest pressure of the center is 990 HPA and the radius of the seventh wind circle is 120mu 340 km. It is expected that Gu Chao will move to the north-west at a speed of 10 Mel 15 km per hour, gradually increasing its intensity, reaching a strong typhoon (42m / s 48 m / s, 14 m m 15), and starting to turn north by east at night on the 9th, gradually weakening its intensity.