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…As I write the script for this rant, SUPER TYPHOON Neoguri is bearing down on Okinawa Island at the southern end of the Japanese archipelago. The track of this storm is simply amazing, it runs SMACK over all of Japan, and the overall size of the cyclone rivals Frankenstorm Sandy. Difference here is that because Japan is an Island, the cyclone can continue pulling in water from 360 degrees eve while it passes overland.
The main Headlines are about the overall Wind Speeds, clocked at it’s strongest at around 125 mph now, but will diminish once it makes landfall. Such sustained winds will cause tremendous destruction right along the coastline at Ground Zero on Okinawa, but not too much further inland or away from the Eye of the Storm.
The real problem with this storm is the size of the Water Dump over ALL the islands of Japan. Remains to be seen how much water this carries, how fast the storm moves along the track, but based on the Sat Photos and water temps in the region right now, my best guess is that this storm will dump a SHIT LOAD of water on Japan, basically everywhere…
For the rest, LISTEN TO THE RANT!!!!
RE
Don’t care about it-I just feel compelled to point out Super Typhoon Neoguri sounds like some kind of Japanese Anime series.
It probably involves highschool kids, karate, and lots of repetitive fights with explosions, girls in sailor suits and short skirts, and lots of tentacles.
No doubt this will add to Fukushima’s problems….
Fukushima? Fukushima? What’s that?
MA
High water is what caused the initial problems, if I remember correctly.
The spent uranium rods are kept in above ground “pools,” which are elevated on stilts. Let us all pray that the stilts remain standing and the pools are not breached.
Fabulous pics from Soyuz up on Slate.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/07/08/typhoon_neoguri_huge_cyclone_heads_for_japan.html
HUGE water dumper as expected. 36 in of rain in some places already.
If Fukushima floods, count on TEPCO to cover it up.
However, it’s the plants on the rivers that are threatened here more than the coastal plants.
RE
Latest from Jeff Masters of Weather Underground:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2721
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Typhoon Neoguri Weakens to Category 3, But Still a Major Flood Threat to Japan
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:37 PM GMT on July 08, 2014
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The outer spiral bands of Typhoon Neoguri are lashing the large southern Japanese island of Kyushu as the storm heads north at 15 mph towards Japan. Despite seemingly favorable conditions for intensification on Monday and Tuesday morning, with low wind shear, very warm sea surface temperatures of 30 – 31°C, very warm waters extending to great depth, good upper-level outflow, and only modest amounts of dry air, Neoguri mysteriously weakened from a 155 mph super typhoon to a Category 3 storm with 120 mph winds in the 30 hours ending at 11 am EDT Tuesday morning. Satellite images Tuesday morning showed a continued reduction in the intensity and areal coverage of Neoguri’s heavy thunderstorms. Neoguri passed through Japan’s Ryukyu Islands over the past day, killing one person and injuring 25, but the eyewall missed making a direct hit on any island. Some notable wind and rainfall reports from the islands:
Peak winds: Sustained winds of 79 mph, gusting to 118.6 mph at Tokashiki Island (according to the Japan Meteorological Agency)
Peak winds at Kadena AB (Okinawa): 74 mph, gusting to 101 mph
Kadena AB rainfall since 8am Monday: 24.03 inches, with 10.02 inches in 6 hours from roughly 3-9 p.m. JST today, and another 12.73 inches from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. JST today
Figure 1. Radar image of the outer bands of Typhoon Neoguri affecting southern Japan, at 12:10 am local time Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Image credit: Japan Meteorological Agency.
Forecast for Neoguri
Neoguri has been caught by a trough of low pressure and is expected to turn northeast towards the Japanese island of Kyushu, where the city of Nagasaki lies. A stalled stationary front over the island has been bringing flooding rains to Kyushu since Thursday; Ushibuka (in far southwest Japan) picked up 14.72 inches of rain over the past 48 hours. Nagasaki had upwards of 8 inches of rain on Thursday. With the soils already saturated from these heavy rains, the torrential rains from Neoguri are sure to cause significant flooding on Wednesday and Thursday. The latest 00Z and 06Z Tuesday runs of the European and GFS models showed landfall occurring between 00 – 04 UTC on Thursday. Ocean temperatures will cool and wind shear will rise as Neoguri approaches Japan, weakening the storm, and Neoguri is likely make landfall as a strong tropical storm or Category 1 typhoon. At this intensity, major wind damage would not occur; flood damage from heavy rains will be the main concern. Neoguri, pronounced “NAW-guh-ree”, is named after the Korean word for raccoon dog. It is also a brand of ramen noodle in Korea.
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Japanese radar
Official Neoguri forecasts from the Japan Meteorological Agency
Neoguri’s eye has a wrinkle
Neoguri’s displayed an unusual “wrinkle” in satellite images taken the past three days–a sharp line radiating out from the northern eyewall, where an interesting “cliff” of clouds had formed. The cause of this “cloud cliff” is unknown, but it is not uncommon to see them in Western Pacific Super Typhoons. Similar eyewall “cloud cliffs” were observed in 2012 in Super Typhoon Bopha (visible on the south side of the eye in this blow-up image from the University of Wisconsin CIMSS Satellite Blog ), and in Super Typhoon Jelawat (visible on the north side of the eye.)
Figure 2. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst tweeted this photo of Typhoon Neoguri’s “cloud cliff” from the International Space Station at 7am EDT July 8, 2014. At the time, Neoguri was a Category 3 typhoon with 125 mph winds.
Figure 3. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst tweeted this photo of Typhoon Neoguri’s “cloud cliff” from the International Space Station at 5am EDT July 8, 2014. At the time, Neoguri was a Category 3 typhoon with 125 mph winds.
Figure 4. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo of Typhoon Neoguri’s “cloud cliff” from the International Space Station at 5:55 pm EDT July 7. At the time, Neoguri was a Category 3 typhoon with 125 mph winds.
Figure 5. Infrared VIIRS image of Neoguri taken at 12:53 am EDT July 7, 2014, showing the “cloud cliff” along the northern eyewall. Image credit: Dan Lindsey, NOAA/CIRA.
The Neoguri Typhoon devastates the Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving behind thousands of evacuees. The island of Okinawa was warned it would suffer some kind of catastrophe in the coming months on this particular site deepweb. http://www.caesaremnostradamus.com/Interpretacion_archivos/Alertascumplidas/Alerta150114.htm