Malou has continued to shed heavy rain as it tracks eastward off westernJapan.During Tuesday morning, EDT, Malou was still a tropical storm, though barely,centered about 150 miles west-northwest of Osaka. Highest sustained winds wereonly 40 mph. Malou was tracking towards the east-northeast at nearly 20mph.
Image Credit: Navy Research Lab MontereyThrough Wednesday, Malou will slant eastward over the main Japan island ofHonshu. It will head off the east coast near Tokyo, by which time it will be nomore than a tropical storm.
The threat of localized excessive rainfall and flooding will persist along thestorm track through Wednesday, or until Malou heads back out to sea.
As of Tuesday, rainfall on a smaller island west of Nagasaki, Fukue, was morethan 7 inches.
Earlier, Malou clipped southern South Korea, where Chungmu was soaked withnearly 6 inches of rain by early Tuesday morning.
By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist
