Typhoon Khanun weakened slightly and hovered in the East China Sea on Friday, but it is still expected to approach Japan's Okinawa islands again, and even head for the main islands, making it what forecasters said was a 'very unusual storm.'
A screengrab from a handout video shows an aftermath of a typhoon along a street in Nakagami, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan August 3, 2023. Yuma Nagahama/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
"Summer typhoons move in a very complicated way, but even given that, this one is very strange. The fact that it's returning the way it came is really not usual." Another unusual feature of Khanun is that it is predicted to strengthen slightly as it moves north towards Japan, where cooler seawaters tend to weaken storms.
"A simple explanation is the temperature of seawater is high - and one reason for that is global warming," he told TV Asahi.
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