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Tropical depression 06W, # 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 17, 2012

8 a.m. Monday, June 18, Japan time: As if Guchol wasn't enough, now another tropical depression has formed southwest of Hong Kong, and initial Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasts call for it to turn northeast and roll at rather high speed north of Okinawa as a moderate tropical storm on Wednesday and rapidly over the Kanto Plain as a tropical depression on Friday. Too early to say what effect it will have on either area; the system is very close to land and conditions aren’t very favorable for development. Details as we get ’em.

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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.