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A powerful typhoon buffeted Japan's eastern coast on Saturday evening, prompting local authorities to issue early evacuation orders, with western areas recently devastated by floods and landslides in the storm's crosshairs.
Typhoon Jongdari, packing winds of up to 180 kilometres (110 miles) an hour, is forecast to make landfall on the country's main island on Saturday night or early Sunday, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency.
[...] Typhoon Jongdari is expected to barrel towards the western Chugoku region Sunday, where record rainfall earlier this month unleashed flooding and landslides, killing around 220 people and leaving more than 4,000 survivors still living in temporary shelters.
The weather agency warned of heavy rain, landslides, strong winds and high waves, and urged people to consider early evacuation.
"We want people especially in the downpour-hit regions to pay close attention to evacuation advisories," meteorological agency official Minako Sakurai told reporters.
[...] More than 410 domestic flights have been cancelled so far because of Typhoon Jongdari, while ferry services connecting Tokyo with nearby islands were also cancelled due to high waves, news reports said.
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-disaster-hit-japan-braces-powerful-typhoon.html
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:10AM
The Japanese are traditionalists, like me. They were having a heat wave. And they were doing the ancient Japanese thing of sprinkling water around their buildings to keep cool. Now they're getting rain. So they don't have to sprinkle the water. There's a balance there, it's very nice. There is a cooling, and there’s a heating.
I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. People in the 1920s thought the Earth was cooling, then it was global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place. And actually, we’ve had times where the weather wasn’t working out, so they changed it to extreme weather, and they have all different names, you know, so that it fits the bill. But the problem we have, and if you look at our energy costs, and all of the things that we’re doing to solve a problem that I don’t think in any major fashion exists. I mean, Obama thinks it’s the number one problem of the world today. And I think it’s very low on the list. So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather. I believe there’s change, and I believe it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up again. And it changes depending on years and centuries, but I am not a believer, and we have much bigger problems. Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air -- not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense.