Predictions of Violent Winds and Powerful Rain for Japan's Super Typhoon Neoguri

Former super typhoon Neoguri is currently lurking just to the southeast of Japan and is threatening to turn north in the coming days, which could spell disaster for those on the Japanese mainland and surrounding islands.

The storm morphed into a super typhoon Monday morning before regressing back in to a typhoon classification, with maximum winds of 125 mph. 

According to AccuWeather.com, Neoguri will continue to travel over a patch of warm ocean over the next day or so, and will also face almost no wind shear (violent winds near the waters' surface that can lessen a storm's strength), all of which means that the storm has the potential to remain "dangerously strong" over the next 23 hours or so, reports Accuweather. 

Accuweather is also advising those currently in the storm's projected path to "heed all evacuation orders" when given by the proper authorities. 

Meteorologists associated with Accuweather are expecting Neoguri to again approach super typhoon status by the time it makes its way over the area between the Ryukyu Islands in Miyako Jima and Okinawa on Tuesday.

Okinawa is projected to bear the brunt of the storm's fury as Neoguri is expected to bring sustained wind speeds of 100 mph and rainfall rates near 2 inches per hour. The western area of Okinawa is also where the United States' Kadena Air Force Base is located, and it should experience the worst the storm has to offer. 

Neoguri is then expected to continue north after passing over Okinawa and turn toward the southern part of Japan.

Landfall is expected sometime Wednesday night on Kyushu island, and wind speeds and storm intensity should drop off once the storm makes land -- though the storm is still expected to be powerful in the hours after it reaches Japan. 

According to Evan Duffey, Accuweather meteorologist, Japan could see rainfall in excess of 15 inches in certain areas.

Neoguri "will slam parts of Japan with the most likely locations being the Ryukyu Islands, Kyushu, Shikoku, eastern Honshu and Hokkaido," said Duffey. 

Tokyo shouldn't see much in the way of dangerous winds, although, they can expect high surf, coastal flooding and a good amount of rain.