Can a Typhoon in Japan Affect Weather in Kentucky?

It sounds hard to believe. A typhoon has just slammed Japan. Yet, our weather may become significantly impacted by what's left of this storm system in a few days.

To test this. I'm going to show the current satellite picture of the storm and update its progress each day.

The theory says that if a typhoon treks across Japan and moves northeast toward the Aleutian islands coming close to Alaska, the upper level winds will continue to steer the storm system toward the U.S. mainland within a few days. Then, our weather will be impacted a few days after this (if it hits the west coast).

Of course, it will not be a tropical system of any sort. However, a low pressure system nonetheless, will impact our part of the world generally within 7 days after the most recent assault on Japan.

Pay attention to the date and time in the lower right quadrant each day.
In the picture, you see the eye of the typhoon (or hurricane). Southwest of that is the little island of Taiwan. In the clearing just north-northeast of the eye is South Korea, while Japan is mostly enshrouded in clouds. The far top right of the image are the Kuril islands. I expect those to come in better focus by this time tomorrow.

Follow the storm's progress here. I'll have an update tomorrow.

MS