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Lovely weather here, very sunny but too hot as usual, lol

Strange to think not far away there is awful weather, don’t you think?

-15 ( +7 / -22 )

Looking at the track of the storm, it's going to possibly just glance Chiba and veer NE, not likely to make landfall. So, a bit of heavy rain and moderately strong wind.

9 ( +12 / -3 )

Just wind gusts.

Broken brolly in Ishihara maybe.

Gamman omeeeh

8 ( +11 / -3 )

Lovely weather here, very sunny but too hot as usual, lol

> Strange to think not far away there is awful weather, don’t you think?

Geographically speaking, Japan is a long country. Half of the typhoons take a path from the south west, hitting Okinawa, Kyushu, Osaka and then Tokyo.

Other times, they take a path from the south, like the current typhoon.

This is why you have nice weather, and I don't.

4 ( +6 / -2 )

At long last a cooler day.

9 ( +11 / -2 )

At long last a cooler day

Yes!

But then we get a few scorches, as is normal after a typhoon hits.

7 ( +9 / -2 )

JR: Why the did you make all seats reserved for the whole of August??

Now with with these trains complete booked out and having to be cancelled due to this typhoon, how the hell are people who reserved seats going to get home from their obon yasumis??

Had you kept the status quo with the usual three unreserved carriages, at least people could get home by getting a non reserved seat and standing for a few hours. As somebody who always looks non reserved seats i had no issues with it. And your online reservation system SUCKS (kept crashing when trying to book the other week through the useless app). Stop forcing us to use those stupid apps!!

JR: ever since you have been privatised your services have gone to the dogs. I'm for renationalisation, especially since you have cutting services and costs to the bone, basically sticking it to the public.

6 ( +14 / -8 )

JMA MSM Model got it off the coast of Chiba with Cat 2 wind,these model are only good for 6 hours, I measured the eye wall it 44 mile wide,it track can change over the next 6 hour ,125 and hour wind will destroy a skycrapers roof and most poor built structures

-4 ( +2 / -6 )

I looking in the eyewall by satellite, weather should deteriorate in Tokyo in 12 hours

3 ( +5 / -2 )

All a bit of a panic. From lunchtime yesterday it was clear that the typhoon was missing the coast. Just some heavy rain.

3 ( +8 / -5 )

Here’s my forecast. And on typhoons, it’s easy to do.

Nothing’s going to happen. Services will be curtailed, thousands of people will be inconvenienced. And just for the sake of Japanese over-precaution. Disasters happen in Japan when NOT expected.

That’s the Japan story. Over and over again. ( How long have you lived here?)

5 ( +15 / -10 )

This one is expected to big a big one. You can feel it in the air. Everyone stay home and put up the barricades.

-14 ( +1 / -15 )

We had the air-con off for the lads but then the humidity went way up suddenly.

Don’t know where you are Bush, but even places very far from a typhoon always get the humidity bump brought by the storm. I’m in Osaka so obviously there is no rain or wind from the typhoon.

Here, though, the relative humidity is 75%. We can look forward to lower humidity after the storm has left the archipelago. And I am looking forward to that.

3 ( +3 / -0 )

Just went out on the balcony in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Nice the temperature is under 30c at 8:30am for the first time in over a month.

Seems to be a massive over reaction to a typhoon that will just glance mainland Tokyo (the islands feel it quite a bit, as they often do, so yes “Tokyo” will get hit hard)

I have been watching the satellite images/updates, rainfall radar, wind…

much ado about nothing.

My local supermarket had a sea of empty shelves yesterday afternoon and people hoarding everything and anything.

Enjoy your next 48 cup-a-noodle meals!

Hopefully toilet paper goes on sale next week as many people won’t need any for a few months and sales will be down.

3 ( +10 / -7 )

2 these satellite are not in real time

-3 ( +1 / -4 )

My local supermarket had a sea of empty shelves yesterday afternoon and people hoarding everything and anything.

I know, eh. A lot of that is just a bunch of chemical compounds anyway and the "food" hardly qualifies as edible. It's just gonna end up in the landfill within a few days.

You can thank the media for hyping things up and spreading nothing but fear and terror, as they always do.

-3 ( +3 / -6 )

Since it's not going to hit the coast, is just some heavy rain, not even strong wind.

Feel sorry for the people who got Obon free week, only to be shut down by the overly fear and caution of the Japan transport system...

-6 ( +4 / -10 )

I live in Florida, USA, and it is Hurricane season in the Atlantic and Typhoon season in the Pacific. However, with either, there is time to prepare for the storms; unlike when an earthquake or tornado occurs.

4 ( +5 / -1 )

Pretty quiet on our section of Tokyo right now. Light winds and a little bit of rain coming. Going to get pretty hectic out at Chiba later in the day though, particularly around Ichinomiya and surrounding areas.

1 ( +3 / -2 )

Waiting for you...

-2 ( +2 / -4 )

Tamarama

Ir’s not going to “get hectic” anywhere.

Have a nice break from the hot sunshine.

-2 ( +3 / -5 )

No one here, obviously, is from Florida, US. Typhoons have turned left and hit where they weren't expected to more than once. Sure, nice today, and good for you. I'd rather like to think on the pessimistic side till it's all over for sure. That's just me. I missed a big blow in Florida by a couple of weeks. Where I had been wasn't devastated but received a lot of low damage. Too early to party down.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

I'm out on the Chuo line and so far...a bit grey, a bit windy, not much rain at all.

Takes me back to my early years in Japan. A typhoon was predicted and the teachers at my school were telling me that this one was going to rip roofs off houses, flip cars upside-down, and so on. Being a Japan Noob at the time, I was definitely a bit concerned.

Day of the alleged typhoon, I wake up, look outside, it's a gorgeous sunny day. And it stayed that way.

4 ( +6 / -2 )

At closest approach, it will be 150-200 east of Tokyo, and then veer to the northeast. Otherwise known as Friday.

3 ( +5 / -2 )

"Powerful typhoon continues to move north toward Tokyo."

Let's never underestimate, mother nature be careful and be safe out there.

-3 ( +2 / -5 )

It's raining cats and dogs where I am and blowing a gale.

Most trains have some delays.

Heading into Chiba soon, so expect to see some more rough sideways water and leaves.

0 ( +2 / -2 )

I can't remember having seen a powerful typhoon hit Japan so badly there were that much damage to buildings.

Japan over cautious with typhoons, while tsunami was never a problem, hey.

You always have hours to get prepared at least. I feelnsorry for my nephew who has to delay for 2 or 3 days his coming back home from Tokyo to Nagoya.

I did not know now you had to book your seats in August for shinkansen. That is a bad move from greedy JR.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

There are frequent CAT4/5 typhoons. Hinnamnor: August 27 to September 1, 2022, was a CAT5.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/18/explainer-what-do-we-know-about-japans-super-typhoon

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My family and I were scheduled to fly back to Kanto from Hiroshima today but are stuck here for an extra day. We’ll be riding the shinkansen back tomorrow in reserved, but separate, seats. So my kids are going to be on their own for 3.5 hours to Yokohama… unless a kind traveller is willing to swap seats.

3 ( +5 / -2 )

I can't remember having seen a powerful typhoon hit Japan so badly there were that much damage to buildings.

The one 7 or 8 years ago caused flooding and tornadoes in Kanto. There were videos of roof shingles being blown off.

2 ( +3 / -1 )

I can't remember having seen a powerful typhoon hit Japan so badly there were that much damage to buildings.

8-9 September 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/09/typhoon-faxai-batters-tokyo-causing-evacuations-blackouts-and-transport-chaos

30 September 2018

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20181001/p2a/00m/0na/004000c

2 ( +3 / -1 )

2019 was a terrible year. First Faxai in September, then Hagibis in October, both were really scary. I think many houses next to Tamagawa were flooded and people drowned there. I remember, the whole area along Tamagawa had been devastated for months, until plants slowly grew back.

1 ( +2 / -1 )

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