[Vision2020] Japan, S. Korea Impacts: Joint Typhoon Warning Center: Super Typhoon 11W (Haishen) Warning #16

[Ted Moffett]

https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html

https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/wp1120.gif

Predicted to reach maximum sustained winds of 140 KTS, 161 MPH, thus a
category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Typhoon Maysak impacted Okinawa in the past week:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200901_08/

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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147211/typhoon-maysak-batters-south-korea

>From NASA website above:

Maysak reached typhoon strength on August 29 and intensified to become the
strongest typhoon so far in the 2020 Western Pacific season
<https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/event/146722/2020-western-pacific-typhoon-season>.
At peak intensity on September 1, Maysak’s winds measured 230 kilometers
(145 miles) per hour, a category 4 storm. The typhoon battered Okinawa, the
Ryukyu Islands, and Jeju Island before moving ashore on the Korean
Peninsula. Forecasters called for widespread rainfall of 100 to 200
millimeters (4 to 8 inches). That rain will fall upon ground that has been
soaked by South Korea’s second-wettest monsoon
<http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200816000056> season on record
and by rains from Typhoon Bavi.

The storm troubles may not be over for North and South Korea. Another
typhoon, Haishen <https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/wp1120.gif>, has
been developing south of Japan, and several potential storm tracks have it
making landfall on the Korean Peninsula on September 6 or 7. As of the
evening of September 2, Haishen had sustained winds of 130 kilometers (80
miles) per hour, with predictions
<https://www.kma.go.kr/eng/weather/typoon/typhoon_5days.jsp> that it could
strengthen to category 4 strength while moving over the extremely warm water
<https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data/5km/v3.1/current/daily/gif/cur_coraltemp5km_sst_ene.gif>
of the tropical Western Pacific.

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