Posted on 08/25/2005 12:10:04 AM PDT by M. Espinola
A powerful typhoon is expected to land somewhere between the Kii Peninsula in the Kinki region and the Kanto region on Thursday night.
The approaching typhoon was already affecting air and ferry services. Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways canceled a total of 12 flights between Tokyo and the Izu Island chain as well as the Kii Peninsula in the morning. Passenger ferries between Tokyo and Izu as well as between Nagoya and Tomakomai, Hokkaido, were also canceled.
Typhoon Mawar was located about 260 kilometers south-southwest of Cape Omaezaki in Shizuoka Prefecture as of 8 a.m. Thursday and heading north at 15 km per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The typhoon, which is likely to make landfall Thursday night or Friday, is expected to bring strong winds, high waves and torrential rains to the Tokai, Kanto and Koshin regions.
The typhoon had an atmospheric pressure of 950 hectopascals and was packing winds of up to 144 kph near its center. It was generating winds of more than 90 kph within a 110-km radius of its eye.
The typhoon is expected to be at around 70 km south-southwest of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, at 6 p.m. Thursday and is expected to become an extratropical depression on the Pacific east of Hokkaido at 3 a.m. on Sunday.
The storm is expected to bring heavy rainfall in the 24 hours to 6 a.m. Friday, with the Tokai, Kanto and Koshin regions expected to see up to 400 millimeters and prefectures in the Tohoku region facing the Pacific expected to receive 150 mm. In some areas, 40 to 60 mm of rain per hour is forecast.
In the Tokai region, high waves of over 9 meters are expected Thursday afternoon.
Typhoon Mawar (left) is posing photogenically with Tropical Cyclone Guchol in this satellite image. Both storms are far out in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, some 900 kilometers from Tokyo. They are traveling in parallel with each other, both headed roughly northwest at comparable speeds. Mawar, however, will strike mainland Japan on its projected course, and will have built to a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of over 320 kilometers per hour (200 miles per hour) as it strikes shore around August 25. Guchol, however, will never come close to shore if current projections are correct, and will remain a substantially weaker system with peak winds less than half the speed of Typhoon Mawar.
UPDATE us when you regarding your pending typhoon situation.
Thanks.
Is this Category 4 storm with sustained of 200 miles per hour classified as a 'super typhoon'?
Please update us here when able - prayers for safety for you & yours sent your way.
Where have you been hiding? There are a number of FReepers in Tokyo.
I am down here in Nishi Nippori. I don't think my club is going to get much business tonight.
Rain has stopped for the time-being at Takaido station. Does anyone have any good links for the whereabouts of the storm and its trail. I've just been following the pictures on http://weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/images/satellite.html?c=jp_anim.
Where have YOU been hiding these days?
My bad. You've been a lot more active than me recently, I just haven't been following the same threads as you. See you Saturday.
It's stopped here in Nishi Nippori. I have NHK on and am following the updates, but they are not saying much.
Bess guesstimate is we are going to get whammoed about 9 p.m.
Post something if you hear differently.
Will do. See you on chat. So far, so good here, but I have no information about the expected landfall time. See you on chat.
Here's what I look at:
https://metoc.npmoc.navy.mil//jtwc.html
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/
Excellent links. Thanks.
Down here in Kyushu in southern Japan we got hit many times last summer , but so far this summer we've escaped virtually unscathed . Seems the Tokyo area is getting the weather we got last year : cloudy & rainy days , lightning storms , typhoons ...
Here in Kanagawa wind and rain have picked up in the past 30 minutes. Not typhoon-strength yet, but steady rain and harder to handle umbrellas.
It looks like there is some very good news: Japan Lifts Tokyo Storm Warning; Typhoon Mawar Heads to Sea
Hope everyone is okay.
According to Bloomberg; "A record 10 typhoons and tropical storms hit Japan last year, leaving scores dead and causing billions of dollars of damage. Typhoon Tokage, the strongest in more than a decade, left at least 61 people dead in October."
"Typhoon Banyan last month battered Tokyo and surrounding areas with winds of 100 kph, causing flight cancellations and halting sea shipments of oil products."
Great links - each one got a bookmark. Thanks!
Well......that was pretty f00kin' boring. Just a few puffs of wind and some rain. I'm really dissapointed.
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