7/14/2011 Typhoon Ma-On Targeting Japan

Source: AccuWeather.com
Date: Jul 14, 2011; 11:20 AM ET
by: Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist

A powerful typhoon is on track to strike mainland Japan early next week.
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5/29/2011 | (VIDEO) Fukushima nuclear reactors not to be affected by Typhoon Songda

Source: CCTV
Date: 5/29/2011 video uploaded


BEIJING,May 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Typhoon Songda continued to move along the east coast of Japan on Sunday, causing travel disruption and hazardous conditions for commuters.Songda is Japan's second typhoon this year.

Strong winds and heavy rain thrashed Tokyo, causing flight disruptions at Haneda Airport. Warnings of landslides and flooding were issued in Kagoshima Prefecture early on Sunday, with some road closures. The typhoon is expected to move along the east coast through to Monday where it will weaken to a tropical storm. The troubled Fukushima nuclear reactors were not expected to be affected by the storm.

5/29/2011 | Typhoon Songda Weakens, Set to Miss Fukushima, Agency Says

Source: Bloomberg
Date: Masumi Suga
by: Masumi Suga

Typhoon Songda is weakening and expected to pass to the south of Japan, avoiding the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture.
The eye of the storm was located about 260 kilometers (160 miles) south-southwest of Ashizurimisaki, part of Japan’s Kochi prefecture, and moving northeast at 55 kilometers per hour as of 9:50 a.m., the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. Wind speeds may decrease to 83 kilometers per hour by 9 p.m. from 108 kilometers per hour at 9:50 a.m., it said.
Forecasts last week projected the possibility that the storm may pass over the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, which spewed radiation after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems and left three of six reactor buildings with no roofs after explosions.
To contact the reporter on this story: Masumi Suga in Tokyo at msuga@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ian Rowley at irowley2@bloomberg.net; Paul Tighe at ptighe@bloomberg.net

5/28/2011 JST | Crippled nuclear plant not prepared for heavy rain, wind

Source: Japan Today
Date: Saturday 28th May, 10:31 AM JST

FUKUSHIMA — The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is not fully prepared for heavy rain and strong winds forecast due to a powerful typhoon moving Saturday toward disaster-affected areas of northeastern Japan, according to the plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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5/27/2011 | Typhoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima Nuke Plant

Source: Bloomberg
Date: 5/27/2011
by: Aaron Sheldrick and Tsuyoshi Inajima

Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said.
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