TOKYO –
Tokyo recorded rain for a thirty fourth consecutive day on September 29, setting a brand new all-time document for the capital, however the extended moist spell may lastly finish after Typhoon No. 26 passes the Izu Islands between the evening of September 30 and the morning of October 1.
Rain is predicted once more in Tokyo on September 30, which might lengthen the document to 35 consecutive days. The key to ending the unusually lengthy autumn rains is Typhoon No. 26, which is forecast to proceed transferring northeast and strategy Hachijojima and different components of the Izu Islands from the evening of September 30 by the morning of October 1.
The storm is comparatively compact, which means rain and winds may strengthen quickly because it approaches. After passing the islands, it’s anticipated to speed up over waters east of Japan and transition into an extratropical cyclone.
Southern components of the Izu Islands ought to stay alert for top waves accompanied by swells from the evening of September 30 by the morning of October 1. Strong winds and lightning are additionally attainable, whereas rain clouds related to the storm itself may carry greater than 100 millimeters of rainfall.
The autumn rain entrance mendacity north of the storm will proceed to have an effect on the Kanto area on September 30, making additional rain doubtless in Tokyo and surrounding areas. Rain can be anticipated in components of the Tokai area.
Forecasts present rain stretching from Kanto towards the Kii Peninsula through the morning, with moist situations persevering with throughout Kanto into the afternoon. Rain may stay over southern Kanto till late at evening. By October 1, the northern fringe of the storm’s cloud system may additionally attain components of Kanto.
Elsewhere, a lot of Japan will probably be lined by an autumn high-pressure system, bringing sunshine and blue skies.
Forecast excessive temperatures for September 30 are 22 levels Celsius in Sapporo, 21 in Kushiro, 24 in Aomori and Morioka, 24 in Sendai, 25 in Niigata, 27 in Nagano, 26 in Kanazawa, 25 in Nagoya, 20 in Tokyo, 27 in Osaka, 28 in Okayama and Hiroshima, 26 in Matsue, 29 in Kochi and Fukuoka, 31 in Kagoshima and 30 in Naha.
Tokyo will stay unusually cool, with the daytime excessive anticipated to achieve solely 20 levels. Morning temperatures in lots of areas are forecast to be round 3 levels decrease than on September 29. Western Japan, nevertheless, will stay significantly hotter, with temperatures approaching 30 levels or greater in components of Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa.
The storm is predicted to merge regularly with the autumn rain entrance because it strikes northeast. As the storm pulls away from Japan, it ought to carry the entrance eastward with it, permitting the record-setting stretch of autumn rain to lastly come to an finish.
Sunshine is predicted to change into more and more widespread in Tokyo from Friday, October 2, with clearer autumn climate persevering with into the weekend. Nagoya and different components of jap Japan on the Pacific aspect are additionally anticipated to see rising sunshine from October 1.
Western Japan is forecast to take pleasure in principally clear autumn climate by Saturday, October 3, earlier than cloudier and wetter situations return from Sunday into Monday.
In northern Japan, Sapporo may see heavier rain as a entrance passes between October 1 and October 2.
After greater than a month of just about uninterrupted rainfall in Tokyo, forecasts point out that the capital could lastly enter a extra settled interval of clear autumn climate as soon as Typhoon No. 26 and the autumn rain entrance transfer away.
Source: TBS