TOKYO, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — Typhoon Hinnamnor is approaching Okinawa, Japan’s climate company mentioned Friday, with the nation’s southernmost prefecture bracing for torrential downpours, gale-force winds and tough seas by the weekend.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) mentioned Hinnamnor, the eleventh hurricane of the season, is anticipated to pack winds of up 108 kph close to Okinawa’s foremost island on Saturday earlier than gathering power.
From Sunday, Hinnamnor is forecast to maneuver in direction of the Kyushu area, bringing stormy climate to the nation’s southwest on Tuesday.
The company additionally reiterated {that a} climate entrance hitting moist air is resulting in very unstable atmospheric circumstances in broad areas of western and jap Japan and has warned of doable landslides, tornadoes, flooding and lightning strikes.
Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan has already been battered by torrential rain, resulting in the JMA issuing a degree 5 alert, the very best on Japan’s catastrophe warning, for 409,000 folks of greater than 172,000 households within the neighborhood of a flooded river in Hamamatsu City.
Local officers have informed these within the affected area to take shelter on the second flooring of their homes, or greater, if doable, or to seek out shelter in tall buildings.
They have additionally been informed to stay vigilant for landslides that always happen when terrain on hills turns into unstable after being inundated.