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Tropical Depression 03W, #1

By Dave Ornauer
Published: May 21, 2012

Looks like the third storm of the northwest Pacific’s tropical cyclone season will pass west of Guam as a severe tropical depression, 72 miles southwest of Big Navy and 101 miles southwest of Andersen Air Force Base, packing sustained 35-mph winds and 46-mph gusts at its center.

03W is then forecast to curve northeast, well to the east of Japan and some 170 miles east of Iwo Jima. It should max out at 69-mph sustained winds and 86-mph gusts at 9 p.m. Thursday.

Of course, these things are always likely to change. Stay tuned to PST for more.

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Dave Ornauer has been with Stars and Stripes since March 5, 1981. One of his first assignments as a beat reporter in the old Japan News Bureau was “typhoon chaser,” a task which he resumed virtually full time since 2004, the year after his job, as a sports writer-photographer, moved to Okinawa and Ornauer with it.

As a typhoon reporter, Ornauer pores over Web sites managed by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as well as U.S. government, military and local weather outlets for timely, topical information. Pacific Storm Tracker is designed to take the technical lingo published on those sites and simplify it for the average Stripes reader.