Typhoon Lan has residents on edge as it makes it’s approach
Typhoon Lan, currently east of the Philippines, may rapidly intensify into a super typhoon and could eventually pose a threat to Okinawa and mainland Japan beginning this weekend. Lan is currently about 600 miles east of the Philippines, to the north-northwest of Palau, and is about to curl north-northwestward. Thunderstorm clusters are persisting near the center of Lan, and several outer spiral bands are now present in infrared satellite imagery from the Himawari-8 satellite. Read full story
