With the wind at Yonaguni at its top speed of 50.2 meters (mps.), Typhoon 3 takes out electric power to 1910 households in Yaeyama, Okinawa. (25jy24)

Splendor of Okinawa: Hibiscus, roadside Uruma, 26ja24


On 24 July, the storm wind perimeter of the huge Typhoon 3 engulfed the Yaeyama region with it’s exceptionally strong winds as it headed west.


As of the evening of 24 July, the highest wind speed of 50.2 mps. was momentarily observed at 1:51 in the afternoon on Yonaguni Island. At 2:04 in the afternoon that day, the history-breaking recorded wind speed for July of 45.8 mps. was observed at Tokorono in Yonaguni Town. According to Okinawa Electric Company, as of 4 p.m. on 24 July, the 2 towns of Taketomi and Yonaguni peaked at 1910 households without electricity.

　

As of the night of 24 July, the weather department urged care, due to the occurrence of a linear rain band (band of excessive rain), with a possibility of an increased danger of sudden rain damage happening.

　

As of now, at 8 p.m., the 3 communities of Ishigaki City and the towns of Taketomi and and Yonaguni have 770 homes without electric power. Okinawa Electric will do its best to restore power sequentially as soon as the storm winds die down. 


As of 7 p.m. on the 24th, the center of Typhoon 3 was at sea, 120 kilometers south-southwest of Yonaguni Island and moving west at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour. It had a peak force of 940 hectopascals at its center and wind speeds peaking momentarily at 65 mps.


Due to the typhoon’s influence, a 24-hour rainfall amount of 132 millimeters was recorded at 6 p. m. on the 24th at Tokorono in Yonaguni. At Kabira in Ishigaki City, 119.5 millimeters was recorded.


On the afternoon of 24 July, the Prefectural Damage Response Headquarters Committee met at the Prefectural Office. Information on each section’s responses and such was shared. The committee urged a strict lookout for storm winds and landslide disasters.


Governor Denny Tamaki issued his comment, “We’d like to have you put your top priory on ‘acting to save your lives’, while being alert to the storm winds and heavy rains.” 


Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Thursday 25 July 2024 at 06:31. Byline: Chikako Maemori and Kenichi Yoshida.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/6cab654d804ba5113bc808214b174ca7a15f58b3


Denny in the News:

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. 


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 my translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.


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 gratefully appreciated.

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