Slow tropical storm dumps heavy rain around Tokyo after causing floods in southern Japan

Why is Tokyo in the headline? The typhoon is currently in Kyushu!

Been lovely round here and mostly sunny, a tad hot mind.

I just looked at the live Radar. The strom stretches from Fukuoka to Hiroshima. They are getting hammered with rain. I am not sure why Tokyo is "Big News" when the Radar shows there is not much rain.

Big disappointment that this typhoon was not stronger. I wanted it to break the summer heat pattern. As you must know, the summer heat is much more dangerous to human life in Japan than typhoons.

Seems that some can't compute; by their commentary it appears to them that if one wasn't actually in Kyushu at the time of Typhoon 10's arrival and/or landfall then they are unable to grasp how powerful a tropical cyclone this was. If you don't get it, look at the footage online from you're office in Slough.

The outer-band rain front in advance of the typhoon has been drenching the Tokyo area. Much damage has been done in Kyushu. One man was killed when his house collapsed in Tokushima, Shikoku, when his roof fell on him. There is a growing risk of landslides over a wide area. This storm is not done yet.

The center circulation is in Shimanto, Osaka is gonna get torrential rain for two days

Heavens just opened just was coming in door from picking my son up. Got everything we need for a couple of days, just in case.

The JMA do.not do a good like the NWS and NHC,they have quality tropical weather service,the NHC does tropical storm guidance,relay to local meteorologist,here is a example of the NHC work with details charts and guidance wonder why Japanese are getting the full details of this storm Google NOAA NHC

Five dead, one missing so far...

Interestingly, it is being reported that faked news footage is doing the rounds of social media, causing panic among people who click on it and then share it with others.

Nan,if the Japanese government did a good job, informing their citizens,they will not panic ,in America we get quality weather forecast,if people do not heed the warning,it their fault ,a slogan by a weather service say do not drive through high water (Turn Around Do Not Drown)

The typhoon is merely a low pressure system at officially 994hpa, dying right now , not reaching the Kanto. We can expect a quiet weekend.

The forecast has been changing every day with strange paths, weather forecast models have not been consistent which is why the storm has suddenly weakened, except it did bring some heavy rain. .

JMA should update its forecast.

A report in the media

Shanshan could be the strongest typhoon in Japanese history.

The next one seems to be headed for Taiwan and possibly China mainland.

Next storm will be near Kagoshima on Sunday , September,1

The typhoon lost it's typhoon status shortly after making landfall in Kyushu.

Winds subsided considerably as it turned into a slow moving Tropical Depression-TD- and a major rain event.

This morning I was surprised to see the hectoPascal reading as 990 or weak in terms of tropical storms compared to 935 the night before.

Knew then I didn't have to worry about wind, just watch out for dumping rain.

I've noticed over many years, most media reports continue using the term typhoon even when it's lost it's status. I think this is simply to keep people "on alert".

Better to be safe than sorry, but sometimes the lack of media downgrading the storms leads to over worrying.

I've witnessed it often.

In Hiroshima, today almost every shop was closed and public traffic didn't operate. It was normal rainy day.

Osaka will get impacted at day break Saturday and daybreak Monday as pass and go out to sea,and loop back Monday towards Osaka

This storm cost 10 of billions of dollars in lost production in Japan

In Japan it is better to play safe than sorry, and possibly face pitiless recriminations.

hang in there guys you have a lot of experience in dealing with this

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