And not the fact that The Phillipines has a name, and the Chinese have another, but the only thing Japan and US (JTWC) agree on in their forecasts is the name "Praprioon". Japan all week has had this thing coming straight for Okinawa, and the US insists on the big turn out to sea. Right now the typhoon is stalled, and will go one of these two directions, but sitting on pins and needles on this turn in Okinawa. - HLG
Major typhoon "Jelawat", a minor TS east of Japan, and a strong upper-level, Autumnal low over Korea. Amazing proximity of these three very different lows, forming an almost equilateral triangle. Jelawat's eye-wall was pounding Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, at the time of this image. - HLG
Katrina moved so fast it never dumped a lot of rain in NOLA proper, but Isaac is very different, and the eyewall is just creeping past the city, and dumping very heavy rain. Totals are already passing Katrina, and hard for the pumps to keep up with it. -HLG