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By DAVE ORNAUER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 10, 2021 6:15 a.m. Sunday, April 18, Japan time: Just when you thought Super Typhoon Surigae couldn't get any stronger ... well ... it did. It's becoming the fourth super storm to affect the Pacific region in the last 5 1/2 months, joining Super Typhoon Goni in October-November in the Philippines, and Severe Tropical Cyclones Narin and Yasa in the South Pacific, each of which reached Category 5-equivalent intensity. At 3 a.m., Surigae was 943 miles south of Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, and 515 miles east-southeast of Metro Manila, moving nor...

Surigae downgraded to regular typhoon status, remains a dangerous Category 4-equivalent storm; TCWS 2 remains raised for eastern Philippines; long-range forecast calls for passage well southeast of Okinawa.

By DAVE ORNAUER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 10, 2021 5:45 p.m. Sunday, April 18, Japan time: Surigae continues to dial back the intensity, but remains a Category 4-equivalent super typhoon, passing along the east coast of the Philippines. Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasts Surigae to curve northeast after leaving the Philippines and pass more than 330 miles south-southeast of Okinawa at mid-day Thursday. At 3 p.m., Surigae was 422 miles east of Metro Manila and 886 miles south of Kadena Air Base, moving northwest at 7 mph, still packing 155-mph sustained winds and 190-mph gusts...

By DAVE ORNAUER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 10, 2021 11:05 p.m. Saturday, April 17, Japan time: Wow. Just wow. In just under two days' time, Surigae has increased in intensity by nearly 300 percent, from a severe tropical storm early Friday to the first Category 5-equivalent super typhoon of the northwest Pacific season as we approach Sunday. As Friday dawned, Surigae was packing 63-mph sustained winds and 81-mph gusts. But now ... wow. At 9 p.m., Surigae was packing 178-mph sustained winds and 219-mph gusts at center, moving northwest at 13 mph, 988 miles south of Kadena Air Base, ...

2021/04/14 11:06 (NOAA animated GIF of Western Pacific) (NOAA animated GIF of Western Pacific) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A tropical storm that formed in the Western Pacific this morning could come closest to Taiwan as early as Sunday (April 18). At 2 a.m. this morning (April 14), a tropical depression in the Philippine Sea officially became Tropical Storm Surigae, the second tropical storm of the year. According to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB), Surigae is not currently expected to directly impact Taiwan and will likely come closest to t...