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Typhoon 18W (Jelawat), # 2

By Dave Ornauer
Published: September 23, 2012

3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, Japan time: Jelawat was upgraded to typhoon status overnight Saturday into Sunday, and there’s been a big change in the Joint Typhoon Warning Center’s forecast track. Initially forecast to roll between Luzon and Taiwan, that track has varied by about 300 miles east, with Jelawat now forecast to rumble between Taiwan and Okinawa, 325 miles southwest of Kadena Air Base around 9 a.m. Friday. Computer models are still all over the lot, even though Jelawat is now three days old. Jelawat is forecast to start curving north sometime Sunday; the question being how pronounced that curve will be. PST is keeping a sharp eye 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.