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Tropical Storm 22W (Prapiroon), # 1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 7, 2012

11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 8, Japan time: PST is keeping an eyeball on Tropical Storm Prapiroon, which spawned overnight Sunday and is lurking nearly 800 miles south-southeast of Okinawa, drifting slowly west.

Joint Typhoon Warning Center says Japan and Korea appear safe for the moment, while Okinawa could feel some of its effects by next week, though a direct hit appears unlikely.

We’ll keep a sharp lookout as the week nears an end.

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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.