Weather experts are monitoring a developing typhoon that is threatening to affect the Tokyo Olympics. With the storm in its infancy, accurate trajectory predictions are difficult, but it is certainly a potential threat reports New Zealand's Stuff website.
This week's building storm has surfers excited at its potential to provide decent sized waves for the sport's Olympic introduction, to be held at Tsurigasaki Beach, in Chiba, south-east of the capital on the Pacific coast.
The weather is on the radar of the powerful New Zealand sailing team, with Laser ace Sam Meech opening their campaign in Enoshima on Sunday.
"There is a lot more typhoon activity in the area than there has been," Meech, a bronze medallist from the Rio Olympics, told Stuff on Friday.
"We have been in a pretty nice south-westerly flow for the last week. There's a bit of a mix-up coming with some typhoons hitting which will be good for the surfing, but it might be a bit different for us."
If the models are right, there could be a typhoon headed for Tokyo on Sunday or Monday.
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Meech said some of the weather models weren't aligning at this stage, but it appeared the wind would flip in the complete opposite direction with north-easterlies forecasted which could develop to "really strong" on Monday.
Much would depend on the course the storm took, with the small island of Enoshima situated 50km south of Tokyo.
The sailors were expecting the storm to provide a lift in swell as well as the increased winds.
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