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Powerful typhoon approaches Okinawa

National Aug. 05, 2011 - 04:30PM JST ( 11 )

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YubaruAug. 05, 2011 - 06:03PM JST

Earlier on Friday, Muifa skirted the northern Taiwanese coast and prompted officials in China to issue the country’s highest storm warning of the year.

This is a joke, the typhoon came at the main island of Okinawa from almost due east, hit the island with it's outer bands yesterday AM, is currently passing to the island's south, heading north west, and it somehow skirted Taiwan early Friday?

Early Friday it was still to the south east of Okinawa moving at roughly 6 knots per hour, which is roughly 11 kilometers per hour.

Oh and the TOP gusts near it's center are close to 60 m/s, while or 200 km/h, but the top winds recorded on Okinawa so far were 49.6 m/s at Miyagi Island, Naha reported winds of around 44 m/s.
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hisashiburiAug. 05, 2011 - 06:07PM JST

Old news!
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YubaruAug. 05, 2011 - 06:11PM JST

Old news!

Might I say that typhoon Muifa is still battering the island of Okinawa, and it is still currently in "bofu keiho" status, or gale warning status. Not so old really.
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hisashiburiAug. 05, 2011 - 06:16PM JST

Read the title. The typhoon isn't approaching Okinawa, Japan. It's appraoching Taiwan, China.
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the_sicilianAug. 05, 2011 - 06:38PM JST

This damn typhoon won't go away. It approached here yesterday and it is just battering the place.
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hisashiburiAug. 05, 2011 - 06:41PM JST

Hey, you call yourself The Sicilian...

Can't you do something about it??
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YubaruAug. 05, 2011 - 07:51PM JST

Read the title. The typhoon isn't approaching Okinawa, Japan. It's appraoching Taiwan, China.

We have been in bofu iki (?) for nearly 30 hours straight, and we are not expected to get out of it until 6AM tomorrow morning. Tanabata no less.
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deadhippoAug. 05, 2011 - 08:54PM JST

http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/typhoon/typha.html
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tigerguyAug. 05, 2011 - 09:29PM JST

Bring it on......just not to Fukushima.
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BlueWitchAug. 05, 2011 - 11:18PM JST

I hope nothing happens to my hometown of Ishigakijima　「石垣島」 Missing so much that area... =(
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Tom DeMickeAug. 06, 2011 - 06:33AM JST

I think Ishigaki island will be well spared, just a lot of wind and some rain. Yes, this typhoon is moving at a snail's pace. We will soon be out of the "red" zone or Boufu Keiho zone but it's raining like crazy. Stay safe!