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Tropical Storm 17W (Chaba), # 4

By Dave Ornauer
Published: October 25, 2010

1:45 p.m. Japan time Monday, Oct. 25: All parameters remain the same, except Tropical Storm Chaba keeps tracking further west, now forecast to pass 120 miles east of Okinawa around 4 a.m. Saturday, packing 92-mph sustained winds and 115-mph gusts at its center. If Chaba remains on its forecast track, Okinawa can expect 40-mph sustained and 46-mph gusts on Friday, officials at Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight said. There’s a chance that an approaching cold front from the north might deflect Chaba to the northeast away from Okinawa, but it also might not. PST will keep track. Stay tuned.

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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.