According to the TV channel, residents of two prefectures on Japan’s Kyushu island (37 thousand people in total) were advised to evacuate due to the approaching hurricane and heavy rains. NHK.
We are talking about the western prefectures of Saga and Nagasaki – residents of certain areas of these regions received a warning about the approaching storm. At the same time, the fourth of five possible threat levels was announced.
Orders to immediately move to a safe place while it is possible to move on the street. In one hour, 69 millimeters of rain fell on Nagasaki and 59 millimeters on neighboring Saga Prefecture. Up to 200 millimeters of precipitation can fall in these regions in just one day.
Sergei Mukhametov, formerly senior lecturer at the Department of Oceanology at the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University compared The power of the hurricane in Libya that virtually destroyed the city of Derna in the bombing of Hiroshima.
Previously in China evacuated 200 thousand people due to typhoon.