Hurricane watch

Typhoon Haishan approaching southern Japan. Image from the Himawari 8 webpage. Its a cat4 hurricane.

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I think it's going to impact on South Korea rather than Japan.
 
Certainly the islands off the west coast are going to be swamped, but the typhoon will not make landfall there.

It is also moving very quickly northwards, passing in under eight hours.
 
The Atlantic conveyer belt is getting crowded.
 
The remnants of hurricane Paulette is expected to dump a lot of rain on the UK next weekend.
 
Wind picking up in the colonies

 
Sally predicted to land at the same location as Laura some 20 days ago, as a category 2 hurricane.
 
Wilfred potentially forming off the African coastline, if so this season will have reached the end of the first alphabet five weeks ahead of any other year.
 
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