Mawar lashed Guam last week, becoming the strongest typhoon to hit the U.S.
“Our installations are tracking the storm closely,” he said. Brett Dornhege-Lazaroff, spokesman for the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force on Okinawa. military, which has troops stationed at multiple facilities on Okinawa, will take preparatory action as the storm draws closer, depending upon need, said Capt. Japan had deployed a number of PAC-3 land-to-air interceptors on southern islands ahead of the launch, but some of them were kept on base instead of being set up at intended locations due to safety precautions ahead of the typhoon. The rocket failed and did not come anywhere near Japan, but residents already anxious about the typhoon said it added to their stress. Officials urged people to stay indoors or take shelter underground in case of falling debris. People on Okinawa had been preparing for the approaching typhoon when a warning siren awoke them Wednesday to alert them to a North Korean rocket launch. “This one seems to be a bit early this year, but we’ve had bigger ones in the past.” “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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