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Tropical Depression 16W, # 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 20, 2012

12:45 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20, Japan time: Too early to say definitively, as most tropical cyclones go, but initial forecast track shows Tropical Depression 16W possibly headed in Okinawa’s direction, this weekend or perhaps Monday, Kadena Air Base 18th Wing Weather Flight officials said.

Long-range forecast shows winds picking up Friday, 25 to 30 mph sustained with gusts up to 40 mph. At 9 a.m. Saturday, 16W is forecast by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center to be 385 miles southeast of Okinawa headed west-northwest.

PST will keep a sharp eyeball on it.

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Dave Ornauer has been with Stars and Stripes since March 5, 1981. One of his first assignments as a beat reporter in the old Japan News Bureau was “typhoon chaser,” a task which he resumed virtually full time since 2004, the year after his job, as a sports writer-photographer, moved to Okinawa and Ornauer with it.

As a typhoon reporter, Ornauer pores over Web sites managed by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as well as U.S. government, military and local weather outlets for timely, topical information. Pacific Storm Tracker is designed to take the technical lingo published on those sites and simplify it for the average Stripes reader.