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Tropical Depression 20W, # 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 1, 2012

6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, Japan time: Pacific Storm Tracker has its eye on a new tropical depression that spawned Sunday northeast of Guam and is forecast to make a zigzag walk northwest through the Northern Marianas Islands, then curve northeast around the Iwo chain and remain well off Japan’s east coast.

While it doesn’t look to be a threat (yet), the forecast track has varied by almost 100 miles west in the last six hours. Local forecast at Yokosuka Naval Base calls for winds to start picking up, 30-mph gusts Wednesday morning. As always, PST’s got your back, Kanto peeps.

Super Typhoon 18W (Jelawat) by the numbers

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 1, 2012

Some facts and figures of the impact on Okinawa from Super Typhoon Jelawat:

-- Maximum sustained 87-mph winds and 137-mph gusts at 1:23 p.m. Saturday.

 
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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.