TOKYO, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — Japan’s southwestern area of Kyushu on Sunday braced for the potential of a big and highly effective hurricane touchdown, with the climate company warning of unprecedented winds and waves.
“The southern part of the Kyushu region may see the sort of violent wind, high waves and high tides that have never been experienced before,” the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) stated Sunday, urging residents to train “the highest caution possible.”
A stage 5 alert, the very best on Japan’s catastrophe warning scale, was issued to greater than 110,000 individuals in about 55,000 households in Kagoshima and Miyazaki Prefectures, with stage 4 evacuation orders in place in cities reminiscent of Kagoshima, Miyazaki and Amakusa, public broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday.
According to the JMA, the attention of Typhoon Nanmadol is south of Kyushu as of Sunday morning. It is slowly making its manner in a north-northwesterly course over the ocean 30 km southeast of Yakushima island and packing gusts as much as 252 km per hour.
Nanmadol, the 14th of the 12 months, is forecast to make landfall in Kyushu on Sunday night, earlier than curving northeast and touring throughout Japan’s largest island, Honshu, by means of early Wednesday.
The climate company issued a particular hurricane warning for Kagoshima Prefecture on Saturday night time, an alert that’s issued solely when it forecasts harmful circumstances seen as soon as in a number of a long time, marking the primary time the company has issued a such warning for an space aside from Okinawa Prefecture.
Weather officers additionally warned that rain and winds may intensify even in areas removed from the hurricane. Heavy precipitation is predicted in western and a few components of jap Japan by means of Monday.