It passed by Taiwan on Tuesday with sustained winds of 155 kph (96 mph) and gusts of up to 190 kph (118 mph), sending high waves crashing on the island’s east coast.National Weather Service - The National Weather Service is responsible for the collection and dissemination of all weather data and issues official forecasts, watches, warnings, and advisories for the United States. Mawar largely skirted Taiwan and the Philippines after tearing across Guam last week. “It’s now weakening, and because the water temperature around Okinawa is not very high, it will continue to get smaller. He said Mawar could have caused damage if it hit Okinawa when it was a typhoon. “All I can do now is to wait,” he said, sitting in his fishing boat, which he’d securely tied to a port facility. The storm could approach Okinawa’s main island on Friday and bring powerful rainstorms to the region, it said.Ī 76-year-old fisherman, Tatsunori Yamashiro, said he wasn’t too worried by the weakening storm.

Mawar, formerly a typhoon but now packing winds of up to 108 kilometers (66 miles) per hour, was around Miyako, one of Okinawa’s remote islands, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. forces are based, appeared unworried even as they took precautions.

Many residents in the prefectural capital of Naha on the main Okinawan island, where about 20,000 U.S. NAHA, Japan (AP) - A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar headed toward Japan’s southern archipelago of Okinawa on Thursday, leading businesses and the airport to close and fishermen to batten down their boats in preparation.

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