TOKYO, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — Typhoon Hinnamnor sideswiped Japan’s southwestern most important island of Kyushu, with the area being pummeled by torrential downpours and gale pressure winds, leading to energy outages and transportation disruption, the climate company stated Tuesday.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), as of midday native time on Tuesday, after sweeping previous Kyushu, the highly effective hurricane was heading on a northward trajectory by the Sea of Japan.
The climate company stated Hinnamnor, which has additionally hammered components of South Korea after making landfall this morning within the nation’s southeast, based on native accounts, was positioned round 280 km north-northwest of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, transferring northeast at 65 km per hour.
Hinnamnor has a central atmospheric stress of 965 hectopascals and is packing winds of greater than 126 km per hour close to its middle, with peak gusts reaching 180 km per hour, the JMA stated.
Local officers stated the Kyushu area because of the highly effective storm has seen energy knocked out throughout broad areas, with one man in his 70s thought to have misplaced his life after falling whereas making an attempt to repair his roof in Saga Prefecture.
In Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, and Kagoshima Prefectures in Japan’s southwest, in the meantime, 38,000 properties misplaced energy, whereas communications providers have been badly affected in Kyushu and the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, native officers stated.
JR Kyushu has suspended its bullet practice providers between Hakata and Kumamoto, its operator introduced, whereas flights to or from airports on Japan’s western coast dealing with the Sea of Japan might be canceled because of the hurricane, stated Japan’s two prime carriers Japan Airlines Co. and All Nippon Airways Co.
Weather officers and native authorities have continued to induce individuals to stay vigilant for violent winds, tough seas, mudslides, floods in low-lying areas, rivers breaching their banks, lightning strikes and tornadoes.
By Tuesday night, japanese and western Japan may even expertise heavy downpours and thunderstorms by Wednesday, regardless of the hurricane presumably being downgraded to an extratropical cyclone, the climate company stated.
Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost prefecture, may properly be hit by thunderstorms and powerful gusts, the JMA additionally stated.
In the 24-hour interval by midday on Wednesday, climate officers have forecast 150 mm of rain within the Shikoku and Kinki areas, and 120 mm within the Tokai space.