Posted on 10/06/2009 10:18:44 PM PDT by kingattax
TOKYO (Reuters) A powerful typhoon approached Japan's main islands on Wednesday, threatening the heavily populated country's industrial centers with torrential rain and strong winds.
Typhoon Melor may be the most powerful storm to hit Japan's main islands in more than 10 years if it makes landfall, the Meteorological Agency said.
Television showed waves pounding the shores of Japan's small southern islands as the typhoon moved north-northeast toward the main island of Honshu.
The eye of the storm was 250 km (155 miles) south of Tanegashima, 1000 km southwest of Tokyo and home to Japan's rocket launch pad, at 10:00 JST (0000 GMT), according to the Meteorological Agency. It could make landfall in central Japan west of Tokyo on Thursday.
Up to 400 mm of rain is forecast over the next 24 hours in the Tokai region, which includes the industrial center of Nagoya, the agency said, also warning of high winds, gales and flooding across southern Japan
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prayers up for Japan.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=40615
Melor caused Parma to reverse direction...
What would it be like if a tsunami hit in the middle of a typhoon.
The typhoon is really really big on the photos...it is so powerful that it is pushing the smaller typhoon back into the Philippines.
Hopefully, the Japanese have a decent sewer system and won’t be flooded like the areas in Manila where they allowed a middle class neighborhood to be built lower than high tide level without telling the folks who bought the houses.
Well, go see 2012 ( the movie ). It looks like they’ve got it covered.
It’s heading towards us in northern Kyushu ( Kumamoto ) as I write . Looks like it’ll be hitting us in about 3-4 hours . Chance we may not get the brunt of it , though . We shall see .
Landslides something to worry about in some areas . Um , we have sewer systems BTW . : )
The maps on NHK show it tilting towards the Japan Sea side of the country so Tokyo and the Kanto plain might get a lot of rain, but not much in the way of winds.
I’m taking that with a grain of salt, however, they’ve been known to curve in unexpected directions before.
i pray you will be safe
Arigato . We just got through battening down the hatches here . We’ve got a mountain of cedar trees directly in back of us - nearest trees about 10-12 feet from our roof . Never had one fall yet , though .
I wonder why the word typhoon sounds so much scarier than hurricane.
Stay safe!
I was joking...as you know
one reason behind the severe flooding in Manila was that the sewer system is too small for such a large city, and drainage is blocked with garbage.
And the middle class neighborhood that flooded is in a valley below high tide level...thirty years ago, one survey advised that people not build there, and the mall built there was made with parking below and a deep foundation because of the known danger of floods.
Alas, unlike Japan we have a lot more corruption
;-(
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