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Typhoon 16W (Bolaven), # 6

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 22, 2012

10 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22, Japan time: Typhoon Bolaven is picking up forward speed, almost dead west at 10 mph, and now is forecast to track closer to Okinawa, 116 miles southwest, and sooner than earlier forecast, now at 8 a.m. Sunday local time.

Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight’s updated typhoon wind timeline calls for the fiercest winds, 58-mph sustained, 80-mph gusts, between 6 and 9 a.m. Sunday. Between 10 and 15 inches of rain expected.

Stay tuned for further updates.

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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.