Man-Yi

It started as a tropical depression SE of Guam and slowly developed as Guam got three days of wind and rain. With some damage to trees and power outages, the storm has now passed into the western reaches of the Pacific and is headed toward Japan. What's troubling is that this was a minimal tropical storm on Guam, but we still had loss of stop lights at major intersections, power surges and outages. So, now we're wondering what a real storm would do to this Island? And for our friends to the Northwest, our prayers as Man-Yi has now become a typhoon. Here's an update from the U.S. Navy weather forecast.

"July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Man-Yi strengthened into a typhoon in the Pacific Ocean west of Guam and is forecast to gain in force as it heads for southwestern Japan, according to the latest advisory from the U.S. Navy.

The eye of Man-Yi, the fourth named storm of this year's western Pacific cyclone season, was located 806 kilometers (501 miles) west of Dededo on Guam at 3 p.m. Tokyo time today, the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center said."

Meanwhile, here on Guam, we are again having sunny skies and mild breezes. But we'll be glad when our battery lanterns arrive with our shipment from the mainland.