Super Typhoon overnight near Japan
While the tropical Atlantic and eastern Pacific Basins remain relatively quiet today, Typhoon Ewiniar in the western Pacific is moving northwestward well to the east of the northern Philippines. Ewiniar, with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph, briefly became a Super Typhoon overnight (U. S. time). The powerful storm will turn to a more northerly track within the next 12 hours or so and likely threaten Okinawa by early Saturday (U. S. time). Ewiniar should be weakening by then, however, and probably will diminish in intensity even further--to a minimal typhoon--as it approaches southern Japan over the weekend.
