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Typhoon 15W (Tembin), # 1; Tropical Storm 16W (Bolaven), # 3

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 21, 2012

10:15 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21, Japan time: All indicators show Typhoon Tembin turning sharply left and battering Taiwan, missing Okinawa by 350 miles southwest Wednesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Bolaven remains forecast to make a straight run west-northwest and rumble 192 miles southwest of Okinawa around midday Sunday. Weather officials and PST are keeping a sharp lookout.

Despite that, it should be a wet, windy week on the island with mostly cloudy skies, rainshowers and a chance of thunderstorms throughout. Winds will pick up starting Thursday, 30-mph sustained and 40-mph gusts in the evening, increasing to 40-mph sustained and 52-mph gusts Saturday evening. Okinawa remains in seasonal tropical cyclone condition of readiness 4.

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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.