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Tropical Storm 15W (Talas), # 1: Tokyo bound?

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 26, 2011

3:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, Japan time: Tropical Storm Talas initially appeared as if it would stay out at sea. Too early to tell, says an official at Kadena Air Base’s 18th Wing Weather Flight, but there’s every chance it might wig-wag toward Tokyo by mid to late next week, possibly making for a wet Labour Day weekend. At 9 a.m. Wednesday, Talas is forecast to be 420 miles south of Yokosuka Naval Base, moving north and packing sustained 104-mph winds and 132-mph gusts at its center.

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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.