Typhoon Shanshan brings torrential rains, travel turmoil across Japan

@BurningBush

I think you will find that they call it that because it is slow in moving, not because the winds are slow.

When does a typhoon stop being one.?

“The storm is weakening rapidly and is expected to fade away before it reached Nagoya in 48 hours. There may be some residual wind and rain hanging around, but the storm itself, as a cyclonic entity, will be dead by this time on Sep 1. The center of the storm is already up to 994hPa and central winds are around 70 kph.

It's no longer a typhoon since yesterday, so the media in Japan should stop their fearmongering.

It's a severe tropical storm, and getting weaker all the time.

Weather reports have it petering out before it even gets to Kanto- Shame the media don't want to report that- It's just not newsworthy.

In North America, a hurricane loses its status of “hurricane” when sustained wind speed falls below 75 mph. But with a typhoon, once designated as such is always referred to as “typhoon”, even when basically little more than a center of low air pressure, like this Shanshan is now.

https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#6/33.771/133.111/&elem=root&typhoon=all&contents=typhoon&lang=en

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c80eje2r20rt?post=asset%3A9462e6b1-5367-4985-939b-619f278f5f8e#post

Note the language used- as WAS the case with Shansan.

JMA show the winds peaking at 30m/s- That's 72km/h- A severe tropical storm.

We were very worried and upset because we didn’t know what to do," she said. Simple answer is there is nothing you can do, just find a hotel, put your feet up and wait until flights resume, are trucks and high sided vehicles being withdrawn from making deliveries? In the UK we close bridges due to trucks being blown over in high winds especially in exposed areas

It was a typhoon...

Is it just me, or do the Japanese weather authorities take way too long to update the actual status of these things, ie. less of a threat than it was? Almost feels like in business, no employee wants to make a call on something for the tiny chance they could be wrong and then face the wrath of sempai.

Pac-PersonToday 02:52 pm JST

JMA show the winds peaking at 30m/s- That's 72km/h- A severe tropical storm.

That would be the international standard

Doesn't surprise me that Japan try to own it.

They used to have a classification of 並の強さ台風 to correspond to the International classification severe tropical storm / シビア・トロピカル・ストーム (STS), but now to add to the fear and confusion of the populace, they have no name for it.

Well, okay, here is a nice website with a very complete explanation about typhoon classification within and outside of Japan.

Here is the link, sorry:

http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/help/unit.html.en#:~:text=A%20tropical%20storm%20with%20the,a%20"hurricane%2C"%20but%20the

Pac-PersonToday 04:18 pm JST

They are not trying to own anything. They display the international standard on the English version of their typhoon map, and the Japanese standard on the Japanese language version. Try it for yourself, change the URI query parameter from lang=en to lang=ja.

You are, of course, presuming that you alone checked both pages for verification.

And when people drowned because the scale only goes off wind speeds and not rain amounts and they mistook "弱" and "並" to mean "not particularly dangerous" they removed those qualifiers.

A huge assumption like that would benifit from substantiation.

There's people who regard every warning as fearmongering. But what does the JMA have to gain from "fear and confusion of the populace"? Cui bono?

I previously insinuated that media under-reporting was part of the equation, so I'm not sure where you got the idea I hold the JMA responsible. The Japan media has previously been guilty of coining their own meteorological term, "Super Typhoon" which the JMA weren't party to.

The sales of old rice just before the new rice season kicks in can't have done the economy much harm, as well as other "Recommended" essentials. I had an email from Kansai electric that recommended having a back up battery in case there are power cuts.

Many are benefiting from this percieved disaster.

Kyushuu takes the brunt of the typhoon season every year- You'd think the powers that be would do more to mitigate what is only going to become more of a problem in the future, but that would cost money and commitment .

It’s not as if there has not been enough time for people to prepare for the violent weather but still following the same patterns as usual just won’t hack it.

I’m always surprised when people get astonished to find their schedules interrupted by powerful forces

I know some publications wish to present themselves as “international” including The Japan Times and JT, but why can’t they report this typhoon as “#10” as well as “Shanshan”?