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Typhoon 16W (Bolaven), # 7

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 22, 2012

1:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, Japan time: With every passing forecast track, Typhoon Bolaven continues edging closer, ever closer, to Okinawa. Latest forecast has Bolaven circling around Okinawa 78 miles to its southwest at 5 a.m. Sunday, but it should rumble through the area rather rapidly before dissipating a couple days later in the East China Sea.

Latest wind-timeline forecast from Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight calls for the following:

-- 40-mph sustained winds, 1 p.m. Saturday.
-- 58-mph sustained winds, 10 p.m. Saturday.
-- Maximum 80-mph winds, 104-mph gusts, midnight Saturday.
-- Winds diminishing below 58-mph sustained, 3 a.m. Sunday.
-- Winds diminishing below 40-mph sustained, 7 p.m. Sunday.

Between 10 to 15 inches of rain forecast.

Okinawa remains in Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 4 for now; that may change as early as Thursday evening.

Never too early to begin preparing. That general cleanup around house and office should already be done; time to start disassembling the trampoline and bring it inside along with those pesky hibachi and bicycles.
 

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About the Author


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.