Eye of Jangmi over Okinawa

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]It is 7:00 p.m. here in Okinawa on Monday, June 1st, and this a tropical storm now, no longer a typhoon, by JMA and JTWC has swallowed the island of Okinawa. This after a day of severe tropical storm to typhoon strength winds reported out here. In fact, the max wind reports we've had out here on the island, they're in Urama, 78 knots or 145 km/h out at the Kadena Air Base, 58 knots, 107 km/h. Naha had those winds up to 68 knots as well. So, those winds up to that destructive level, but not quite sustained at Cat 1. These are max gusts I've seen here on our Monday morning and really peaking just into the early afternoon as this moved off here towards the north.

[00:00:51]But, some pretty decent images coming out of this area, too, just showing, you know, a little bit of light debris taking place, some down palms out there. Um, we did have those power outages also being reported here on the island. That's what this graphic is here. Areas in the dark red indicating over 10,000 people without power on the east coast, naturally, where this wind was blowing in from the south and east. That's where you've had some of the most of the power outages. But, the radar showing that clearing behind us. Now, the good news is the back side of the storm, you know, it still is packing a little bit of a punch here, but not nearly as bad as the front of it. a lot of dry air. You can see that kind of eating away here in the microwave imagery on the western side of the storm. So, the back side's not going to have nearly as the punch as the right front quadrant did. That's typically the case with tropical systems, but definitely exceptionally true with this storm system as it tracks off here towards the north. So, let's take a look at the forecast track with this though. Of course, it's going to be passing over Okinawa and heading off here towards the north and then eventually moving over the Amami Islands there into Kyushu. Big rain maker out here and then eventually the over there towards Shikoku and places like Iwakuni Tuesday afternoon here. You're going to be looking at some messy weather and then we had some friends out here in the Kanto plain of course Tokyo including around the Yokosuka Atsugi.

[00:02:21]I'm pointing those out because we got a lot of military watching these updates.

[00:02:25]You are going to be looking at messy weather midday on Wednesday early afternoon could be looking at tropical storm strength conditions. Nothing like what they seen out here in Okinawa but you know enough to kind of delay some of the trains flights are probably going to be affected here too and already 300 flights across Japan have been canceled at this time and there is warnings being put out that the Shinkansen especially the one from Osaka out there towards Tokyo is going to be a shut down as well but that's a broader view of what we're looking at with this storm as it pushes off towards north. There's the rainfall outlook. Meanwhile take a look at the high resolution HW RF of course is passing right over Okinawa and you see that moving off towards north here. This is Amami Oshima as we go ahead to about midnight tonight. The backside of the storm is going to be looking at those gusty conditions here on Okinawa overnight. You can kind of see those winds picking back up. See all the darker reds though. That mean out ahead of this definitely rough weather but it's still going to be windy overnight.

[00:03:26]I'm not going to sugarcoat it here you know, it's not going to be the same storm system but still very windy as we go ahead overnight into tomorrow morning. Then you see this passing right over Kagoshima, Tanegashima and then eventually back here towards north. So Shikoku is going to take the brunt of this storm system.

[00:03:45]The Inland Sea a lot of people out of Iwakuni were asking about there.

[00:03:48]Probably protected by the island of Shikoku but the worst weather is going to be out here into the Kii Peninsula as well. Flooding rains possible and then you can see here this is would be right around noon time on Wednesday.

[00:04:01]Uh this is the Izu Peninsula right there. Kanagawa out here. You have the Chiba Prefecture. So, there's going to be those winds wrapping around across the Sagami Wan and you actually can see some decent banding just into about midday, so late morning, early afternoon on Wednesday for our friends out here in the uh Yokosuka area at Zushi, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. They could be looking at some tropical storm strength winds and also some fairly heavy rainfall. I'm looking at about 100 to 300 mm of total precipitation. Don't forget this storm system still tapped into the monsoon as well. So, after this passes Japan or moves off towards the north and continuing to pull in that inflow behind it, which is the other half of the story, too. We're watching um this uh actually a kind of a new low develop back down here towards the south. And as this spins up, it's going to track towards the north and east and in fact increasing rainfall for the west coast of Luzon from Manila all the way out through region one. As we go ahead through Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and potentially we could see a secondary low form off it. You can kind of see it right there. Granted, it is going to be embedded in the monsoon. I doubt that we would have a kind of named storm system, but uh big thing squeezing the moisture, increasing the rainfall, flooding rains uh here on the west coast of the Philippines with rain totals adding up to 300 to 500 mm in the forecast possibly here across uh the Subic area all the way out towards like La Union and even into Ilocos Norte. So, a lot happening here uh as we start to see kind of the onset of the rainy season turning on out here in the Philippines.

[00:05:45]So, a lot's going on here today. I hope everyone has been staying safe as we continue to track Typhoon Jangmi now directly over Okinawa. Tonight, you're going to get the backside of the storm.

[00:05:57]It's not going to be nearly as rough as the front side, but still some windy conditions out there. So, if you are being told to stay inside, I would highly advise. Those winds going to pick back up after dark here as we watch our storm system track off towards north and east. I'm meteorologist Robert Speta. Number one thing, of course, as always is stay safe out there. But, if you do have any photos or anything you want to send my way, check out my Facebook page Robert Speta Weather.

[00:06:21]Probably the best place to send them.

[00:06:23]All right. Have a good day.