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Nanmadol: 5 Points on Japan’s Terrible Super-Typhoon

September 18, 2022
Bharat Times

Four million people have been asked to evacuate on the island of Kyushu.

Authorities warned millions of civilians to seek shelter as Hurricane Nanmadol made landfall in southwestern Japan on Sunday night. The fierce storm was packing fierce thunderstorms and torrential rain.

Here are five things to know about Typhoon Nanmadol:

  1. The US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) designated Nanmadol as a super-typhoon, making it perhaps the deadliest tropical storm to hit Japan in decades.

  2. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the eye of the storm reached the city of Kagoshima at around 7 p.m. local time (10:00 GMT), marking the storm’s official landfall. Parts of the southwestern Kyushu region received up to 500 mm of rain in less than 24 hours, and the storm was moving at speeds of up to 234 km/h (146 mph).

  3. At least 20,000 people were spending the night in shelters in Kyushu’s Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, where the JMA issued a rare “special warning” (a warning that is only issued once in several decades). expects the going conditions).

  4. Seven million people have been instructed to evacuate to shelters or seek safety in stronger structures to escape the storm. Japan experiences about 20 hurricanes annually, and the country is currently in typhoon season. These storms often bring severe rainfall resulting in landslides or flash floods.

  5. According to scientists, climate change is making storms more severe and increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including heat waves, droughts and flash floods.