Strange A typhoon at this time of year yes no .
Anyway is currently a Tropical Storm and looks like making it to Category 4. http://www.hewsweb.org/storms/
I been tracking those aswell and it looks like we are going to have a supertyphoon on our hands in a few days time. To my understanding is that in that part of the world typhoons can spin up all year round.
BULLETIN
TYPHOON EWINIAR (04W) ADVISORY NUMBER 14
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TIYAN GU
200 PM GUAM LST MON JUL 3 2006
...EWINIAR UPGRADED TO TYPHOON...
NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT.
AT 1 PM GUAM LST...0300Z...THE CENTER OF TYPHOON EWINIAR WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 12.8 DEGREES NORTH AND LONGITUDE 134.5 DEGREES EAST.
THIS IS ABOUT 335 MILES NORTHWEST OF YAP.
TYPHOON EWINIAR IS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 6 MPH. THIS MOTION SHOULD
CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS...WITH A SLOW INCREASE IN FORWARD
SPEED.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE 75 MPH. THIS MAKES EWINIAR A CATEGORY 1
TYPHOON ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON TROPICAL CYCLONE SCALE. EWINIAR IS
EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY THROUGH TONIGHT.
TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 125 MILES FROM THE
CENTER OF EWINIAR.
REPEATING THE 1 PM POSITION...12.8 DEGREES NORTH AND 134.5 DEGREES
EAST...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 6 MPH WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF
75 MPH.
At noon, Typhoon Ewiniar was centred about 1270 kilometres south-southeast of Okinawa. It is forecast to move northwest at about 13 kilometres per hour across the seas east of the Philippines.
-Hong Kong Observatory
In other words, a danger to shipping at the moment.
What I mean, would it more user friendly for you you to condense the info and post it, it in 'your own words' rather than relay the whole boring text, where we can get that info anyway???
TOKYO (Reuters) - Powerful typhoon Ewiniar headed north in the western Pacific Ocean toward Japan's southern Okinawa island chain on Wednesday, and officials said winds in the area were likely to strengthen from early on Friday.
Ewiniar, which means "storm god" in the Chuuk language of Micronesia, was east of the Philippines and had winds of up to 180 km (112 miles) per hour at its center as of early Wednesday.
It was moving north at 15 km an hour, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.
"We don't expect Okinawa to feel the impact of its winds until sometime on Friday," an official said.
060900Z POSITION NEAR 19.8N 128.4E.
TYPHOON (TY) 04W (EWINIAR), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 395 NM SOUTH OF
NAHA, OKINAWA, HAS TRACKED NORTHWESTWARD AT 04 KNOTS OVER THE PAST
SIX HOURS. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AT 060600Z IS 40 FEET.
MANILA (AP) -- A cluster of islands in the far north of the Philippines raised a weather alert early Friday as Typhoon Ewiniar, packing winds of up to 165 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour), moved toward Okinawa, Japan, forecasters said.
The typhoon, with gusts of up to 230 kph (140 mph), was located about 550 kilometers (340 miles) northeast of Basco, Batanes, where authorities warned residents to expect rains with moderate to sometimes strong winds that could produce flying debris, life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
The core of the storm was expected to pass west of Okinawa, Japan, on Saturday evening, before making landfall over South Korea as a weakened category 1 typhoon on Monday morning, forecasters said.
REMARKS:
070900Z POSITION NEAR 21.6N 127.3E.
TYPHOON (TY) 04W (EWINIAR), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 290 NM SOUTH OF
NAHA, OKINAWA, HAS TRACKED NORTH-NORTHWESTWARD AT 06 KNOTS OVER
THE PAST SIX HOURS. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AT 070600Z
IS 36 FEET.
072100Z POSITION NEAR 22.9N 126.4E.
TYPHOON (TY) 04W (EWINIAR), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 230 NM
SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF NAHA, OKINAWA, HAS TRACKED NORTHWESTWARD
AT 07 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE
HEIGHT AT 071800Z IS 32 FEET.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China evacuated more than 7,600 people from their homes near the eastern city of Ningbo as a typhoon skirted the coast on Sunday, heading for
South Korea.
Evacuations were also under way in other cities of Zhejiang province, including Taizhou, Zhoushan and Wenzhou, Xinhua news agency said.
More than 8,000 ships had returned to harbor in Ningbo, south of Shanghai, and Zhoushan.
Typhoon Ewiniar was heading almost due north and was expected to make landfall on the Korean peninsula on Monday, the Hong Kong Observatory said on Saturday night.
South Korea Issues Rain Warnings as Typhoon Ewiniar Approaches
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea's weather authority issued heavy rain warnings for Typhoon Ewiniar, which is expected to pass through the western part of the country tomorrow.
Ewiniar, with maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour (81 miles per hour), was centered 230 kilometers northwest of Japan's Okinawa at 9 a.m. Seoul time, the Korea Meteorological Administration said on its Web site.
The storm is moving north at 22 kilometers per hour and is expected to approach the southern island of Jeju tomorrow morning, the administration said.
A heavy rain warning, which means more than 150 millimeters of rainfall is expected in the next 12 hours, was issued in some areas of North Chungcheong and South Chungcheong provinces at 1 p.m. A heavy rain advisory, which is for rainfall of more than 80 millimeters, was issued in Daejeon and parts of South Chungcheong province, according to the weather agency.
SEOUL (AFP) - At least five people have been killed and two others are still missing after powerful typhoon Ewiniar lashed the southern part of the Korean peninsula.
The downpour flooded buildings and roads, cut off telephone services and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes on Monday. Thousands of residents were also left without power as strong winds uprooted trees and damaged electric wires.
Nearly all domestic plane and ferry services were cancelled in the south of the country and landslides and flood waters disrupted traffic on highways and railroads.
Ewiniar -- which means storm god in Micronesian -- was moving at 35 kilometers (21 miles) per hour after hitting the southwestern island of Jindo, packing winds up to 112 kilometers per hour, the Korea Meteorological Administration said.
The typhoon dumped up to 23.4 centimeters (9.36 inches) of rain as it ploughed through the southern part of the peninsula, it said.
Heavy rain was also expected along the country's northeast coast late Monday before the typhoon moved into impoverished
North Korea.
"It was the strongest wind to hit this area since typhoon Maemi (in 2003). But damage was less serious than I thought because Ewiniar moved so fast," Oh Kyong-Hwan, a fisherman in the southern port of Yeosu, told Yonhap news agency.
Maemi killed about 130 people, flooded 420,000 homes and caused extensive property loss.
Five people have been found dead with two others missing, the government's central disaster center said. All were swept away by flash floods or rain-swollen streams.
An 87-year-old woman was killed in the southern city of Cheongdo while a 68-year-old woman died after she was swept through a flooded irrigation ditch in the rural county of Hamyang, 330 kilometers south of Seoul.
"Ewiniar lost much of its power after battering the south coast but it is still strong enough to cause enormous damage," a disaster center official said.
"The toll may increase as we are receiving unconfirmed reports of casualties," he said.
Yonhap said at least eight were reported missing or dead, with a dozen people injured.
A landslide killed a 36-year-old woman in the southern port city of Busan, while a highschool student was reported missing and nine others were injured when a bus crashed into a river in Jinju, also on the south coast, it said.
Two people were also injured in Gongju, 140 kilometers (84 miles) south of Seoul, when a bus overturned after being struck by an uprooted tree.
Hundreds of schools were closed across the country, and more than 30,000 vessels were shore-bound or holed up at shelters.
"The typhoon weakened slightly after hitting the southwest coast. It will cut through western and central provinces before reaching the East Sea (Sea of Japan) tomorrow morning," meteorological center official Kuk Hyun-Hun said.
Ewiniar is the year's third typhoon. China also evacuated more than 7,600 people from exposed areas along its eastern coast.
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