Typhoon Shanshan struck the southwestern region of Kagoshima in Japan as it made its way eastward on the evening of Thursday. The typhoon, classified as ‘very strong’, made landfall in the city of Satsumasendai at around 8 o’clock, said the weather officials.
NHK reports that Shanshan came with heavy rain and strong winds which was about 800 millimeters in forty eight hours with more of rain forecasted for Friday in Kyushu Yamaguchi Prefectural and Shikoku Region.
Kyu shinsai and nephai have both continued and additional safety measures have been taken and one of them is a landslide alert of extreme caution to the likelihood of landslides has as well been given in some parts of Kyushu; in shikoku ehime prefecture And Tokai region Shizuoka prefecture territories.
Kyodo News reported that three members of a certain family perished while two were injured in landlocked aichi prefecture in site central Japan when the house, that the family was living in, was hit with a landslide after hours of torrential rain caused by the Typhoon. Kagoshima based coast guard, Japan reported that 40 people were injured when a man in his sixties who was onboard a ship fell into the ocean and has been reported missing since then.
Kyushu’s utility operator reported that even 254,610 houses had already been living in the dark.
This Protect Duty regulations amendment brought up to concern more widespread including Central Japan Railway announcing that it will suspend the Tokyo Osaka Bullet Train.
And, intra Japan trips done by Japan Airlines and All Nippon offered many cancellations for this area.
The storm was also reported to have winds when it was moving at 15 kilometers per hour while located in the vicinity of the city of Minamishimabara on the Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture.
The storm warning and high waves advisory which were previously blamed for the highest level reaction the meteorological agency monitoring system took actions to cripple the storm.
The meteorologists, however, are highly perplexed by the direction the storm is heading towards saying the storm’s path is rather complicated and cannot be predicated.
Consistent with its name however, this typhoon is still remarkable in its strength and quick motion owing chiefly to the high sea surface in the southern parts of Japan where temperature reaches roughly 30 degrees centigrade.
A mid atmospheric cutoff low is considered to be one of the reasons for the infavorability of this cyclone in that it creates an upper air pocket with very cold air.
The presence of an upper level low pressure system with mid level troughing continuously maintains the difficulty of monitoring the steers of the cyclone.
