I don't think so. We will hear more about this storm soon.

rather who believes that with all the assholiness he can muster

for the people in the way.

Nothing really withstands 155 mile an hour sustained wind.

with gusts up to 205mph! It's a freaking monster.

Stay safe people!

in less than a month...Typhoon Bolaven slammed Okinawa with 160+MPH back on 26AUG and was the strongest storm to hit the island in 50 years. Sanba will take a similar path and have similar winds...

sP

This one is expected to lose some steam before reaching land, but what are the odds of being hit back to back with two such intense storms?

Okinawa has a history of bad storms and they have adjusted their construction to deal with it (Bolaven caused no deaths on Okinawa despite the intensity of the storm). However, two, of this power, this close together? Seems a little ... unusual.

Hope all those in harms way get to safety!

sP

This one could be a Cat 5. We got some remnants of Bolaven in Korea, but it wasn't near as bad as they thought it would be.

There are Okinawa webcam's in large format and auto refresh: http://www.qicknews.de/Webcams/Okinawa/okinawa1.php

Welcome to DU

I live up in Seoul so the chance as we won't get much of it. Further down south in Pusan and Jeju Island they will have some terrible damage.

I see it's losing some strength as predicted

and hopefully before it gets to Busan it will be a Category 2 storm... not that a Cat2 is a whimpy storm or anything but so much better than a 156MPH whopper!

sP

because this monster is huge.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2231
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The winds are rising and heavy rain is lashing Okinawa, Japan where Category 3 Typhoon Sanba is expected to make landfall early Sunday morning local time (early this afternoon U.S. EDT.) Radar loops show that the large 35-mile diameter eye of Sanba is on a track that will bring it across the southern part of Okinawa, and heavy rains and wind gusts of 59 mph and 66 mph have been reported at Naha Airport and Kadena Air Force Base, respectively, over the past few hours. Moderate wind shear of 10 - 20 knots has weakened Sanba below its Category 5 peak on Friday morning, and satellite loops show that Sanba is weakening, with the cloud tops warming and the eyewall getting eroded on the west side, but Sanba should be able to maintain Category 3 strength as it crosses Okinawa today. Sanba will continue to weaken as it encounters cooler waters and higher wind shear between Okinawa and South Korea Saturday night and Sunday, and is likely to be at Category 1 strength at landfall in South Korea near 18 UTC on Sunday.

as Sanba approaches? I read that in the comments on Masters' blog.

It looks awesome on my "Living Earth" app. The wind is just starting to pick up here, too, after being eerily still all morning.

It was very still this morning, but we're starting to get some pretty good gusts now (2:40 p.m.). I imagine it will be really roaring through here in five or six hours. I'll keep you posted. (I know how you love to storm watch. . )