TOKYO — Parts of Japan were slammed by torrential rain on Friday (June 2) as Typhoon Mawar neared, bringing winds and heavy rain to a wide swathe of the country and prompting authorities to advise tens of thousands to evacuate. Mawar, which wreaked havoc on Guam earlier this week, has weakened to tropical storm strength from its earlier super typhoon...
TOKYO — Parts of Japan were slammed by torrential rain on Friday as Typhoon Mawar neared, bringing winds and heavy rain to a wide swathe of the country and prompting authorities to advise tens of thousands to evacuate.
But forecasters warned there was the danger that humid air from the typhoon could feed into a seasonal rain front, touching off heavy localised rains. Though heavy summer rains are not uncommon in Japan, June is unusually early for a typhoon-type storm to near the islands. Parts of Shikoku were hit by 162.5mm of rain in the three hours to 8am, nearly half of that in one hour, NHK public broadcaster said, prompting warnings of landslides.
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