{"id":67810,"date":"2026-08-02T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/67810\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:02:12","slug":"pacific-storm-tracker-super-typhoon-12w-dolphin-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/67810\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Storm Tracker: Super Typhoon 12W (Dolphin), # 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\tCategory 1- or 2-equivalent winds and heavy rain could pummel Okinawa, starting Thursday and going into the weekend from Typhoon Dolphin. (Photo courtesy of Joint Typhoon Warning Center)
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11 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, Japan time: Okinawa remains in for a windy, gusty visitor in Typhoon Dolphin<\/a> later this week. But it has lost a tad more of its punch, downgraded to a Category 3-equivalent<\/a> system.<\/p>\n

Still, Joint Typhoon Warning Center\u2019s latest forecast track shows Dolphin<\/a> rumbling just north of Okinawa at mid-afternoon Friday, packing high-end Category 1-equivalent<\/a> or low-end Category 2-equivalent<\/a> intensity along with heavy rain. Starting Thursday and lasting into the weekend. Expect a lengthy lockdown.<\/p>\n

At 9 p.m. Sunday, Dolphin was about 1,460 miles east of Kadena Air Base<\/a>, barreling west-northwest at 15 mph and had weakened to 130-mph sustained winds and 155-mph gusts at center. Still a nasty beast.<\/p>\n

U.S. bases on Okinawa remained in seasonal Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 4 through Sunday afternoon. Expect accelerated TCCORs as the first full week of August commences.<\/p>\n

Read more at stripes.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Category 1- or 2-equivalent winds and heavy rain could pummel Okinawa, starting Thursday and going into the weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36005,8,36004,36006,162,3375,2293,25742,4235,36009,36011,36012,36007,36003,36010,43964,36008,25278,43966,43852,43965,43967,23579],"class_list":["post-67810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-okinawa","tag-guam-homeland-security","tag-japan","tag-national-weather-service","tag-office-of-civil-defense","tag-okinawa","tag-pacific","tag-planning","tag-power-outage","tag-preparation","tag-ready","tag-repair","tag-restoration","tag-storm-conditions","tag-storm-measures","tag-super-typhoon","tag-super-typhoon-dolphin","tag-tropical-disturbance","tag-tropical-storm","tag-tyhpoon-okinawa","tag-typhoon-dolphin","tag-typhoon-guam","tag-typhoon-japan","tag-typhoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}