Aug. 31, 2020 â NASA Finds Typhoon Maysak Moving Near Okinawa, Japan. The season is currently very quiet, with only six systems forming as of July 31. At 19:00 UTC on August 29, the system was upgraded to typhoon and at 21:00 UTC to Category 2 typhoon. An advisory warning for heavy rains and strong winds has been issued for Okinawa and the Amami region by the Meteorological Agency as a typhoon makes its w. ... 2020 ⦠Tropical Storm "Maysak" (known as Julian in the Philippines) formed east of the Philippines on August 28, 2020, as the 9 th named storm of the 2020 Pacific typhoon season. 2020/04/16 About Okinawa Tourism and COVID-19; 2020/04/01 The Okinawa Multilingual Contact Center website went live on April 1. Maysakâs eye is not expected to go over the island, but pass just west of it. Tropical Depressions 27W (Ma-on), 28W, # 2 FINAL A fallen tree is seen on a sidewalk in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 1, 2020, after a powerful typhoon passed near the southern Japan islands. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Typhoon Haishen, which means "sea god" in Chinese, was packing sustained winds of up to 162 kilometres per hour after battering Okinawa ⦠A powerful typhoon was barreling toward the southern cluster of Japanese Okinawa islands on Saturday, prompting ⦠A typhoon, like a hurricane, is formed through a process called Tropical Cyclogenesis. https://www.visitokinawa.jp/for-visitors/emergency-information/typhoon Hagupit was moving northwest. TCCOR All Clear to be set for U.S. bases on Okinawa on Dec. 1, marking the end of the northwest Pacific typhoon season. As of 6:45 a.m. on Aug. 31, the ninth typhoon of the year was located south of Okinawa, traveling northward at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour. Due to the typhoon and rain clouds around it, there is a possibility of heavy rain of 80 mm per hour due to local lightning in the Okinawa region from the night of the 31st to the 1st. It was centered about 285 nautical miles west of Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. Weather Underground provides tracking maps, 5-day forecasts, computer models, satellite imagery and detailed storm statistics for tracking and forecasting Typhoon Maysak Tracker. Typhoon Maysak continued to move through the Northwestern Pacific and was closing in on Japanâs Okinawa Island when NASAâs Terra satellite obtained a visible image of the storm. Residents of the islands arrive at a heliport in Kagoshima, southern Japan Friday, Sept. 4, 2020 to take refuge ahead of a powerful typhoon. Japanese authorities urged early evacuation for more than 100,000 households in the southern prefectures of Okinawa, Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Nagasaki [AFP] 6 Sep 2020 facebook