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[chris_J2]

http://weathernews.jp/radar/

Eye visible at left, on Kyushu Radar. Roll the mouse over the map & zoom in, then zoom in again (Adobe Flash Player 9). Gusts to 157 kph. Heavy rain, flash flooding & landslides. Looks like it will sideswipe Shikoku, & hit Honshu on Friday afternoon south of Osaka.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/visir/westpac/visirjava15W.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aiyIuS7u.t_8&refer=japan

"Sinlaku's sustained winds strengthened to 111 kilometers (69 miles) per hour from 93 kph earlier today, the agency said on its Web site. The storm's eye was 113 kilometers west-southwest of the city of Kagoshima on Kyushu at 5 p.m. local time, it said.

Sinlaku was moving east-northeast at 20 kilometers per hour, with winds gusting to 157 kph. The storm's center is forecast to pass to the south of Kyushu and Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands, before approaching Tokyo on Sept. 20, according to the weather agency's latest advisory.

More than 500 people were forced to evacuate their homes in Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures due to flooding, national broadcaster NHK reported on its Web site. One house was damaged by a small landslide, it said.

Flights Canceled

Japan Airlines Corp., Japan's biggest airline, canceled 37 flights to and from southern Japan, while its subsidiary, Japan Air Commuter Co., canceled 57 flights by 4 p.m., JAL said on its Web site.

All Nippon Airways Co., Japan's biggest domestic carrier, said it canceled 25 flights to and from Kyushu. The cancellations affect 2,700 passengers.

Japan is regularly hit by cyclones during the northern hemisphere's summer and in 2004 experienced a record 10 landfalls by tropical storms and typhoons, leaving more than 60 people dead.

Ten people are missing and 20 were injured after Sinlaku hit Taiwan as a typhoon, the National Fire Agency said. The storm damaged NT$670 million ($21 million) worth of crops, the agency said.

Sinlaku, the 15th storm of the northwest Pacific cyclone season, is the name of a goddess worshipped on the island of Kosrae in Micronesia, according to the Hong Kong Observatory, which lists tropical cyclone names in use in the Pacific. Japan's weather agency counts it as the 13th of the season."

http://www.tenspider-weather.net/tropical-cyclone/tc-northwest-pacific-atcf-2.html

[Tiger Beer]

Thank's for the post. I'm in Japan now, and I doubt it will get up as far north as I am, but interesting to view nontheless.

[chris_J2]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=a62qeeFGujjc&refer=japan

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/images/zoom24d/0813-00.png

[Tiger Beer]

Nearing Tokyo!

I'm too far north, no way it'll get up here...but interesting to follow, even if it is only two posters on this.

[little mixed girl]

sinlaku?
wtf?
it's called effing "typhoon 13" here in japan, they have no need for names.

[chris_J2]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aZAS4EZk16Bg&refer=japan

[Ya-ta Boy]

This rain we've had all day must be the side effect of it.

[little mixed girl]