The most powerful worldwide storm of 2022 is barreling over the East China Sea, threatening Japan’s southern islands and posing a risk of wild winds to China’s east coast.

According to the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Super Typhoon Hinnamnor has sustained winds of around 160 miles (257 kilometers) per hour with gusts of more than 195 miles per hour. 50 feet is the greatest major wave height (15 meters).

According to an official from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Hinnamnor would be the strongest storm of 2022 based on the greatest sustained wind speed recorded at this stage,

The typhoon was located approximately 230 kilometers east of Japan’s Okinawa at 10 a.m. and was projected to travel west-southwest at roughly 22 kilometers per hour toward the Ryukyu Islands.

The US Joint Typhoon Warning Center predicts that the meandering super typhoon will lose part of its intensity in the following days.

Things are a little quieter in the Atlantic, where a protracted stretch of calm has left the area known as Hurricane Alley between Africa and the Caribbean on track for its quietest August—traditionally the start of the hurricane season’s most active phase—in 25 years.

According to Phil Klotzbach, principal author of Colorado State University’s seasonal storm prediction, the ocean has only had two stormless Augusts in more than seven decades of record keeping: one in 1961 and the other in 1997.