Denny in the News: 26 July 2021

 With Miyako Island under a storm warning for 79 hours, Typhoon 6 does 46.5 million yen in agricultural damage to Okinawa Island and Daito Island.



As of 21:00 on 24 July, the huge and strong Typhoon 6 was heading north-northwest in the East Sea at 15 km/h. On the same day, strong winds blew wildly around Miyako Island until late in the afternoon and around Kume Island until nightfall. Storm warnings were in effect around Miyako Island for more than 79 hours from early morning on 21 July until late afternoon on 24 July.

 

According to the Weather Bureau, at 8:45 in the morning on 24 July, the  wind force was observed to peak at 36.5 meters at Kume Island Airport. Typhoon will maintain its current strength as it heads north over the East China Sea. Strong winds are expected to continue around Okinawa Island until before noon on 25 July.


At the prefecture’s Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters meeting ( Governor Denny Tamaki, Headquarters Director) on 24 July, it was announced that Okinawa Island and Daito Island suffered in excess of 46.5 million yen in agricultural damage, especially in sugar cane losses.


Typhoon 6 had a center atmospheric pressure of 950 hectopascal, with its highest wind velocity at 40 meters, peaking at a maximum of 60 meters.The eastern side of its center reached 220 kilometers and its western side reached 150 kilometers with a wind velocity above 25 meters. Within a 600 kilometer radius of its center strong winds were within a velocity of 15 meters.


In the Kitahara district of Kume Island, by 18:00 on 24 July, 310.5 millimeters of precipitation was recorded and Kunigami Village the same day by 22:40 had 286.5.  Two people were confirmed injured in the city of Miyakojima, among them a woman in her eighties who suffered the serious injury of a broken right leg caused by a fall due to the high winds  

 　

According to Okinawa Electric, 4,940 households lost electricity in the cities of Miyakojima and Ishigaki, as well as the Taketomi district. As of today at 21:00, a total of 130 households are still without electricity in the city of Miyakojima.

 　

Because of the typhoon’s approach as a high tide is on the rise, on 25 July at Kume Island, a high tide alert is expected. Okinawa Meteorological Observatory is calling for caution against flooding and inundation due to high tide around sea shores and river mouths in Okinawa Island’s south central  and northern areas, 



Original Japanese Article: Okinawa Times, published 25 July 2021, 08:51

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/cd9a2a44961024f7419810bb05e24a7aecd77fb2


Translator’s Notes


  1. Denny in the News: news about Okinawan Governor Denny Tamaki.

Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 


  1. This blog hopes to  translate one news article a day on the governor.  It is unsponsored and unauthorized. The translator simply hopes to improve his skills and perhaps give the governor an English speaking audience. Any suggestion on improving the translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.


  1. Where they occur, words and phrases in Ryukyuan (the Okinawan language) are rendered in italics and translated in parentheses. Names  whose readings are uncertain are rendered as Name (=Kanji?) as in Nagayuki (=長行?). Any corrections in such instances would be of great help.

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