Super typhoon near Japan's Okinawa is year's strongest storm

The strongest global storm of 2022 is barreling toward the East China Sea, threatening Japan’s southern islands but posing only a potential risk to Taiwan or China’s east coast.

Super Typhoon Hinnamnor, currently several hundred kilometers to the east of Okinawa, is expected to skirt the Japanese islands this weekend, according to a forecast from Japan Meteorological Agency. The storm is packing sustained winds of about 150 miles (241 kilometers) per hour and has gusts around 184 mph, according to the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center. 

Hinnamnor would be the strongest storm of 2022 based on the maximum sustained wind speed recorded