Phooey on 'Phanfone' Class 4 typhoon

[Taro Toporific]

Typhoon Phanfone a Threat For Japan, Tokyo?
weather.com | 2014Oct01
...Phanfone to become the equivalent of a Category 4 tropical cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale later this week.
Official forecasts from JTWC, as well as the Japan Meteorological Agency, show Phanfone gently curving northwestward and northward late this week into the weekend.With the potential for Phanfone to become a very powerful tropical cyclone, the forecast track becomes critical...more....

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Also refer to the Japan Meteorological Agency: http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/typh5.html

[kurogane]

Yeeks. I was out in Sotobo in Chiba all last week, and from about Thursday or maybe Friday the wind was fierce. The weather was nice and the sea was stunning in its ferocity, but I am still tired from Chari-ing into that wind.

You kids stay safe if Fanfone hits.

[Taro Toporific]

Yeeks... stay safe if Fanfone hits.

Typhoon Fannyfone is still looking strong...

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/1418.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... japan.html

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[Hijinx]

I just hope my Mon. morning classes are cancelled, or what a waste of breezy weather.

[Mike Oxlong]

[Mike Oxlong]

[Taro Toporific]

Rain interrupts Japan F1 Grand Prix
AAP 5 OCT 2014 - 5:33 PM UPDATED 18 MINS AGO (3:56pm Japan Time)
Heavy rain from an approaching typhoon halted the Japan Formula One Grand Prix after just two laps, both run behind the safety car.
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Marshals at Japanese Grand Prix are wearing Halloween masks. (Pic via @kobax27)

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http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/141824.html

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[Mike Oxlong]

Was on the tv news tonight between 19:30 and 20:00. A bit slow to hit the interwebs.

Three U.S. Airmen Missing After Typhoon Phanfone Slams Okinawa

One of the three U.S. airmen washed away to sea Sunday from their station post at Kadena Air Base in Japan has died.

The U.S. Air Force said the airman was pulled from the sea by the Japanese coast guard and pronounced dead at a local hospital.

The incident occurred at 3:45 p.m. Sunday as a strong typhoon bore down on the U.S. military base on the coast of Okinawa.

The other two remain missing, and “rough seas are complicating rescue efforts,” according to the base, which said it is jointly conducting the search with Japan’s coast guard.

All three names are being withheld until the Air Force can notify next of kin...

http://whnt.com/2014/10/05/u-s-airman-d ... ams-japan/

[yanpa]

TV news said they'd gone to see/photograph the waves.

Darwin at work...

[Russell]

I hope the pics came out fine...

[Yokohammer]

Pretty rainy up here now. Looks like it might be a rough day.

[Taro Toporific]

SHARKphoon!

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[Samurai_Jerk]

The office is letting us "work" from home today. It is wrong that I love a good weekday typhoon?

[Yokohammer]

Just landed near Hamamatsu. (Around 8:15 AM)

[Russell]

It passed during the night in Hyogo.

Not very strong winds here.

And the sky is nice blue with some clouds now.

[Yokohammer]

This is unusual: Kindergartens through high schools from where I am up to Sendai wll be closed today.
That's a LOT of schools.

[Samurai_Jerk]

We're definitely getting a lot of water dumped on us in Tokyo but the winds don't seem particularly strong.

[Taro Toporific]

It's stopped raining already in Tokyo, but earlier on the news this morning...

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[Hijinx]

That's a soggy beaver.

[Taro Toporific]

That's a soggy beaver.

There's no escape from the NHK cameraman.

台風来たらNHKを見ろ - NHKのカメラマンは台風の時に本気出すスペシャリストエロカメラマンだ
---ホムセンライダーしのぶ (@sinobu6542) October 6, 2014

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[Wage Slave]

Good grief.

[dimwit]

Typhoons. Gotta love em.

[matsuki]

Bwahahahaha, geniuses, all of them!

[chibaka]

Can't imagine that on the BBC

[wagyl]

My, my, this is interesting!

MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti), Ekaterina Blinova - Tepco, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has revealed that the approaching typhoon could hit the damaged, decommissioned 40-year old nuclear power facility Fukushima No.1, which was severely affected during the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

"The deluge would likely cause seawater to mingle with the radiation-tainted water accumulating in the basements of the reactor buildings at the six-unit plant, allowing 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape, according to an estimate that Tepco revealed Friday at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority," the Japan Times reports.

According to the media outlet, tidal waves from the storm are likely to reach a maximum height of 26.3 meters or more. The storm is likely to strike the Fukushima No.2 nuclear plant as well, but "its idled reactors and fuel pools" are not expected to be destroyed, Tepco officials assert.

Let's just look at their stated source, and compare and contrast.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has warned its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could be hit by tsunami as high as 26.3 meters.

The deluge would likely cause seawater to mingle with the radiation-tainted water accumulating in the basements of the reactor buildings at the six-unit plant, allowing 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape, according to an estimate that Tepco revealed Friday at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority.

Tepco said a tsunami of that size occurs once every 10,000 to 100,000 years.

[Taro Toporific]

Typhoons. Gotta love em.

Ok, here have another...Typhoon Vongfong

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/typh5.html

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[Mike Oxlong]

Another weekend, another typhoon...

[yanpa]

Another weekend, another typhoon...

Isn't bearing the brunt of typhoons Okinawa's raison d'etre? In the same way that Niigata exists primarily to absorb Siberian snow before it gets dumped on Tokyo?

[Samurai_Jerk]

We're all gonna die!!

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Super Typhoon Vongfong Turns Into 2014's Strongest Storm

An enormous storm in the Western Pacific rapidly strengthened overnight into the year's most powerful super typhoon.

Super Typhoon Vongfong reached sustained winds of 155 mph (250 klometers per hour) on Tuesday morning, with gusts of up to 190 mph (306 kilometers per hour), according to the U.S Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Satellite estimates from the Japan Meteorological Agency suggest the massive storm's central pressure dropped to 900 millibars, making it the most intense storm of any kind this year, according to The Weather Channel.

[Mike Oxlong]

Another weekend, another typhoon...

Isn't bearing the brunt of typhoons Okinawa's raison d'etre? In the same way that Niigata exists primarily to absorb Siberian snow before it gets dumped on Tokyo?

Sure feels that way. Been real windy since a couple days before the last one, and hasn't let up since.