<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html" target="_blank">https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/wp1120.gif" target="_blank">https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/wp1120.gif</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Predicted to reach maximum sustained winds of 140 KTS, 161 MPH, thus a category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.</div><div><br></div><div>Typhoon Maysak impacted Okinawa in the past week:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200901_08/" target="_blank">https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200901_08/</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------</div><div><a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147211/typhoon-maysak-batters-south-korea" target="_blank">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147211/typhoon-maysak-batters-south-korea</a></div><div><br></div><div>From NASA website above:<br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 12.5px;outline:invert;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Maysak reached typhoon strength on August 29 and intensified to become the strongest typhoon so far in the 2020 <a style="color:rgb(247,119,5);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/event/146722/2020-western-pacific-typhoon-season" target="_blank">Western Pacific season</a>. 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 <a style="color:rgb(247,119,5);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200816000056" target="_blank">second-wettest monsoon</a> season on record and by rains from Typhoon Bavi.</p><b></b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><p style="margin:0px 0px 12.5px;outline:invert;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">The storm troubles may not be over for North and South Korea. Another typhoon, <a style="color:rgb(247,119,5);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/wp1120.gif" target="_blank">Haishen</a>, 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 <a style="color:rgb(247,119,5);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="https://www.kma.go.kr/eng/weather/typoon/typhoon_5days.jsp" target="_blank">predictions</a> that it could strengthen to category 4 strength while moving over the <a style="color:rgb(247,119,5);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/data/5km/v3.1/current/daily/gif/cur_coraltemp5km_sst_ene.gif" target="_blank">extremely warm water</a> of the tropical Western Pacific.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 12.5px;outline:invert;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">--------------------------------------</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 12.5px;outline:invert;text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</p></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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