Typhoon Goni pounded Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands on Sunday evening Japanese time (Sunday morning U.S. time).
Peak Wind Gust Reports
The shaded colors are approximate wind speeds. Blue mostly indicates tropical storm force winds, but the red and magenta shaded areas are experiencing much stronger gusts.
Winds have gusted up to
158.8 mph (71 m/s) at one location on the island of
Ishigakijima,
according to data from the Japanese Meteorological Agency.
This breaks the site's all-time record wind gust of 157 mph (70.2 m/s) set July 31, 1977. Wind gust records go back to 1941. Sustained winds at that same site have peaked at 107.1 mph (47.9 m/s) which breaks their all-time August record, but is still short of the 118.6 mph (53.0 m/s ) in the July 31, 1977 typhoon. Sustained wind records there go all the way back to 1897. The airport on Ishigakijima Island clocked a gust of 150.7 mph (67.4 m/s) at 10:18 p.m. JST (9:18 a.m. EDT).
Earlier this month, the Ryukyu Islands were hit hard with strong winds from Typhoon Soudelor. Ishigakijima saw a wind gust of 123 mph during Soudelor.