Typhoon weakens but train, flight disruptions continue

Millions of tourists from overseas had been warned never to visit Japan during the summer, and now they're finding out only one of the reasons why. This long-term resident spends the season either abroad or at home in air conditioned comfort and venturing outside only when strictly necessary.

Doing things - almost anything - is always an ordeal.

"Since it’s going west..."

Is the Typhoon#10 not moving in an EASTERLY direction...?

Just another nothing burger for Nagoya. Every year same thing. Happy Japan is always wrong and overly worried about typhoons in this region. Never more than a little wind and rain. I lived in Taiwan, legit typhoons every summer, the threat was real.

This Turtle Typhoon is dumping lots of rain and can't make up it's mind, LOL

fa477279

Sure, you’re right. The usual thing. Dramatist commenters.

Taiwan, Phillippines - The real deal!

In the Tachikawa area of Tokyo... well, I have a bucket that is about 25CM deep, it was empty yesterday morning, it was full and overflowing this morning. And the rain didn't really start to fall until around 5PM yesterday. That is a lot of rain in a short time. Oh... and Japan was not always fearful of Typhoons... 30 and 40 years ago people would have been out like it was practically a normal day... now-a-days, the media, like almost any place, blows it a bit out of proportion but... it is very hard to balance vigilance and going overboard.

Sunny and beautiful right now in Kansai!

Typhoon Vera ( Isewan) 1959

Typhoon Nancy 1961

These are the last major typhoon disasters in Japan. Before that, there were many.

It’s a mystery for sure.

Fine weather in Hyogo after a night of thunderstorms. The course remains eastward not west.

Latest satellite imagery

https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#5/34.5/137/&elem=ir&contents=himawari&lang=en

The typhoon has broken up into a rain cloud probably very little strong wind.

Anyone from Fukuoka? How is it going on there?

The live map shows the eye right on top of it.

Hot, rainy, humid, delayed trains.

But I still have to come in to the office.

You can't do anything about the weather, but you can with work culture.. maybe.

Wallace,the forward track is headed to Hyogo region by Saturday

Looking at the satellite imagery, the eye of the typhoon has gone.

Wallace,the eyewall is Northeast of Oita , headed your way with rain, rain, rain,passing near Kochi and Osaka this weekend

The center eyewall over water will regenerate it could strengthen again over water

The Japanese government did not over dramatize this typhoon. I was looking at the wind speeds data for the typhoon when it came ashore. Here we call the same cyclone, a hurricane. Based on our data, Typhoon 10 was a class 3 typhoon. That is the same level as hurricane Katrina that hit New Orleans and killed over a thousand people. The wind speeds dropped quickly when it reached the mountains. The old saying " Better safe than sorry".

Yrral

You can watch the JMA satellite imagery link I posted. No more eye.

Very sunny here, I’ll pop out for lunch and see how it goes. Non stop rain forecast at midnight, be safely indoors then.

Well, I guess the weekend will be ghastly here, maybe too bad to even pop out at all.

William Mirrielees

Please don’t bring in a comparison to Katrina. That was a totally, totally different situation - structurally and politically - resulting in those deaths.