Typhoon Talim is bearing down on Japan after narrowly missing China's biggest city, while parts of southeast Asia are bracing for weekend floods. On Friday afternoon, Typhoon Talim was located over the East China Sea, producing wind gusts of 185km/h near its core. This is equivalent to a category 3 tropical cyclone on the Australian scale. The system had previously been approaching China's east coast, although it took a right hand turn during the last 24 hours and is now heading for Japan. Residents in Shanghai - China's most populated city - are breathing a sigh of relief after being spared from Talim's severe weather. In fact, the anticlockwise circulation of air around the typhoon caused a brief period of clear and dry weather in Beijing earlier in the week as the system approached land. The city only experienced sporadic light showers today as the fringes of Typhoon Talim's swirling mass of cloud reached the city. Forecasts from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC) indicate that Talim will weaken as it approaches southern Japan this weekend. The system is expected to make landfall in Kyushu on Sunday and may cause flooding and damaging winds as it move further north into Monday. Meanwhile, Typhoon Doksuri is making landfall over northern Vietnam today and is will spread flooding rain into parts of Laos and Myanmar on the weekend. The latest official advisories from the JMA are available at: http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html