Winds at Japan Nuclear Sites Sending Radiation Out to Sea Again

Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist
accuweather.com
March 16, 2011

Brisk offshore winds today will continue to direct any released radioactive matter out to sea from sites along the quake-ravaged northeastern coast of Japan.

The favorable winds will blow mostly from the northwest at 15-30 mph throughout northeastern Honshu into Thursday, local time.

This would follow a bout of onshore winds in the lowermost atmosphere on Tuesday and Tuesday night, local time.

Tuesday’s easterly to southeasterly winds wafting along the east-facing coast would imply that any radioactive matter being released at the time by stricken nuclear power plants should have drifted over land normally having a significant population.

Authorities have cleared all residents from a 20-km-radius (or about 12 miles) exclusion area.

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