Battening down the hatches for Hagibis

[Simon Culling]

Highest winds on the METARS appear to have been at the main Tokyo Airport - at Haneda - with a gust to 85kts or 98mph.

RJTT 121200Z 17067G85KT 1500 R16R/1100V1600N R22/0900V1500N R16L/1300N R23/0325V0750N SHRA BR FEW006 BKN007 BKN015 23/22 Q0967 NOSIG RMK 1ST006 5ST007 7CU015 A2857 P/FR

Not so windy at the other Tokyo airport at Narita (which is to the east of the city) - top gust there was 60kts or 69mph.

RJAA 121130Z 15034G60KT 3500 SHRA BR FEW008 BKN010 24/23 Q0978 BECMG 14046G64KT RMK 2ST008 7CU010 A2889 P/FR

[Razor]

true. this typhoon is ruining the rugby world cup : ( anyways the tornado killed 1 person im guessing ef2

My neighbours are grizzling because several baseball games have been postponed and/or cancelled.

The people who moan about sport being interrupted should be ashamed of themselves.

Rugby world cup is not ruined, it will continue with little impact after today.

[tornado]

My neighbours are grizzling because several baseball games have been postponed and/or cancelled.

The people who moan about sport being interrupted should be ashamed of themselves.

Rugby world cup is not ruined, it will continue with little impact after today.

I know. I hope all the teams including the all blacks are safe.

[Razor]

939mm in one day! Radio NZ link here https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/400866 ... in-decades

[bpo]

My neighbours are grizzling because several baseball games have been postponed and/or cancelled.

The people who moan about sport being interrupted should be ashamed of themselves.

In their defense, baseball is huge here. The only sport that even comes close to it is sumo, and sumo fans claim their sport is dying because of the ever-increasing popularity of baseball in Japan. They've been playing it since the 1870s and it's a national fixation, maybe even more than it is in the US.

The typhoon has been and gone from our area. Just a breeze here now but otherwise fine and calm. A nice, crisp autumn morning.

[Simon Culling]

Flooding seems to be the greatest problem with many areas inundated. Some pictures show flooding up to the first floor of some buildings.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50032170

[bpo]

Flooding seems to be the greatest problem with many areas inundated. Some pictures show flooding up to the first floor of some buildings.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50032170

Few people are better prepared for these kinds of things than the Japanese.

[Simon Culling]

Some very high 24 hour rainfall totals from Typhoon Hagibis. These are 24 hour totals to 9pm on Saturday 12th September:

942.5mm at Hakone, Kanazawa
707.0mm at Yugashima, Shizuoka
630.5mm at Urayama, Saitama
624.5mm at Ozawa, Tokyo
612.0mm at Umegashima, Shizuoka

https://twitter.com/hepomodeler/status/ ... 7194946561

[Awhituobs]

we would have major problems here with rain totals like that!

[spwill]

Tokyo is the same latitude as Whangarei, quite a different climate, more extemes in Tokyo with the continent not too far away and the active tropical weather season in that part of the Pacific.

[bpo]

An absolutely perfect early autumn morning here west of Tokyo. Snow fell up in the Japan Alps and we had ice on the windshields down here near the coast.