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On the final travels of former Typhoon Songda, now a rated a TS(Tropical Storm), currently transitioning to an extra tropical system. Rains continue to fall over the Southern areas of Japan, @0900UTC(1800JST) the 12 hour rainfall totals over 7 stations exceeded 150mm and 30+ stations recorded 100mm in that time, precipitation over Fukushima continues to be relatively subdued ahead of the systems arrival to the south around 0300UTC(1200JST)/30. Precipitation can be monitored @ AMeDAS. AMeDAS modeling are predicting on the 1500 JST(0600UTC) run winds at 10m height to be 10-15m/s(19-30kts) over the Fukushima coastline with15-20m/s(30-39kts) just offshore blowing southerly @ +24 hours, to note something though and I don’t know if this has been raised yet, wind speeds are at 10m, a reactor isn’t 10m it’s 65m from my bad memory, so using the more advanced wind forecast changing to the 100m height winds are still predicted to be equal to the 10m directly over Fukushima NPP but at the northern boundary of the exclusion zone the forecast indicates a 20-25m/s(39-49kts) wind. In short though…. as it’s a static map, it’s hard to truly discern whether the stronger outliers @ the 100m height will affect the plant, again this is true across the 10m height with the wider map indicating areas of higher wind approaching over open water. I think the fact the building is taller leaving it more affected by high winds should be noted, remembering too, the top half is what is destroyed and where the SFP’s are, even the lower winds could blow debris into the pools….not that there is any shortage now! It could of course cause many other problems along with the rain….hopefully it doesn’t. It’s late so I am sorry but I will have to leave, I won’t be back for around 20 hours so by then the end result will be known regarding Ex-typhoon Songda. Or it will be well on the way anyways. All the usual is available @ JTWC- www.usno.navy.mil @AMeDAS-Forecast wind(changeable altitudes)- agora.ex.nii.ac.jp WARNING a very heavy link, it always likes to crash my browser! They also have the simple wind map forecast, current wind observations and rain observations and JMA will also continue to update their wave forecast.

@deb forgot to put the keyboard in the equazion... I do spell better in long hand

@Majj Many years ago, an illness, forced me to become "right-handed", and remember spending hours with the wide ruled paper. Even though I knew how to spell the words, there was more struggle to get the letters in the correct position. It was very strange because my brain would work twice as fast as my hand, causing me to drop letters, words all the time. Thus, explains some of my weird looking posts on here, lololol

@deb i wrote to my grandaughter for two years before she fesed up that she couldn't read it, my son spent 13 years in private school with the nuns, almost fell off my chair when he asked me if checks have to be in long hand...he couldn't rember how to do it

@fitter the public education system is messed up, no money for teachers or books, but they can spend 5 million on updating the buildings...so, while students sit in nice classrooms, they don't have the tools or instruction
to get a decent education.

Did you all see this: Fukushima school limit: 1 millisievert

By MIZUHO AOKI and REIJI YOSHIDA
Staff writers

The education ministry said Friday it has set a new nonbinding target to reduce radiation exposure of Fukushima Prefecture students while they are at school to 1 millisievert or less a year. search.japantimes.co.jp

It turns out that the original decision to raise the school limit to 20 millisieverts, was based on recommendations from the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). This had given rise to outrage not only in Japan, but all over the world. translate.google.com

@deb i hear you, we spent around 100,00 on grade/high school.... but worth every penny... he stay on the deans list in engineering at a very highly rated school... but still can't write, go figure... he does say he likes to do his outlines by hand then on the pc ... he rembers it better, i'm th esane way

@Majj what was the rate before they raised it to 20? do you know

Good morning Edano

@elainekirk Take a deep breath, relax... take enjoyment in positive movement then continue on your journy!! you'll lose your sanity otherwise (smilely don't know how to make)

i think tepco should be prepared and order another putzmeister in time.

@elainekirk I know, and frankly it is all crap, but right now, for those children, 1 is better than 20, it is a small step, but in this situation, it is all we have. If you can't find 1 thing, no matter how small, to be grateful for, life is not worth living.

the typhoon seems to miss tokyo and fuku ..... hisz.rsoe.hu the last one did the same.

@Majj : look there is a town named Obama !

@Edano I saw that and thought it was a trick map! How horrible to have to put that on all your mail. Sick reminder of how messed up the US government is.

@Edano lololol, they are all crooks true...

Cooling system pumps stop for 15 hours at Fukushima plant's No. 5 unit

TOKYO, May 29, Kyodo

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday pumps to cool the nuclear reactor and fuel pool at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant's No. 5 unit, which had been in a state of ''cold shutdown,'' stopped for around 15 hours until backup pumps were activated.

The temperature inside the reactor rose to as high as 94.8 C after the unit's pumps were found to have stopped Saturday night but fell after switching to the backup pumps to restore the cooling system, the utility known as TEPCO said.

If the unit had been left unattended with the temperature surpassing 100 C, the water containing nuclear fuel inside the reactor could have boiled and evaporated, thereby exposing the fuel and damaging it.
english.kyodonews.jp

@Edano Another fire at Daini? They had one a few days ago as well.

@deb : maybe i meant this one.

No.5 reactor temperature rises after pump failure

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says temperatures in the Number 5 reactor and its spent fuel storage pool have risen due to pump failure. The reactor has been in a state of cold shutdown.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it found at 9 PM on Saturday that a pump bringing seawater to cooling equipment for the reactor and pool had stopped working.

TEPCO says temperatures have been rising since then.

The water temperature in the reactor rose by about 24 degrees Celsius to 92.2 degrees at 11 AM on Sunday. The temperature in the fuel storage pool increased to 45.7 degrees from 41 degrees.

On Sunday morning, TEPCO installed a new pump that started operating shortly after noon.
The company suspects failure in the pump motor caused the malfunction. It is now working to detect the cause of the failure while monitoring temperatures in the reactor and pool.

Sunday, May 29, 2011 13:08 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp