JAPAN EXPECTING OVER 3 FEET OF RAIN FROM TYPHOON!!

It's late, I meant EAST.

Typhoon Ma-on is forecast to strike Japan at about 19:00 GMT on 19 July.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwill benear33.0 N,135.3 E.Ma-on is expected to bring 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around212 km/h (132 mph).Wind gusts in the area maybeconsiderably higher.

According to the Saffir-Simpson damage scale the potential property damage and flooding from a storm ofMa-on'sstrength (category 4)at landfall includes:
Storm surge generally 4.0-5.5 metres (13-18 feet) above normal.
Curtainwall failures with some complete roof structure failures on small residences.
Shrubs, trees, and all signs are blown down.

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. is rushing to install a cover over a building at its crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant to shield it from wind and rain as Typhoon Ma-on approached Japan’s coast from the south.

The cover will be placed over the turbine building of the No. 3 reactor “momentarily,” Hajime Motojuku, a Tepco spokesman, said yesterday. The utility also detached a hose from a barge docked near the plant that stores contaminated water, he said, without elaborating.

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latest..shows the storm impacting Japan as a Cat 1 and Fukushima as a Tropical Storm

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Widespread adverse impacts from rain, wind and heavy seas would result from a direct hit on the southern mainland. Heavy rain, high winds and rough seas could also impact the site of the tsunami and nuclear disaster north of Tokyo.

Storms of the kind that Ma-On is likely to become can unload over a foot of rainfall, with flooding and mudslides, upon reaching Japan.

Greater Tokyo is unlikely to feel the worst of the storm, no matter its ultimate track. Still, rainfall will arrive by Tuesday with the worst of the storm likely from Wednesday into early Thursday. However, there is enough uncertainty in the track of Ma-On that we cannot say that a direct hit is not possible.

Heavy rainfall is expected in the tsunami-ravaged areas north of Tokyo. Late in May, Typhoon Songda brought 4-8 inches of rain to this area, triggering flooding that killed more than 10 people. Typhoon Songda, also brought wind gusts of 125 mph to Okinawa.

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Typhoon Ma-on approached southwestern Japan and is forecast to pass south of Tokyo today on a track that may take it away from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station.

The eye of the storm, which is categorized as “strong” by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was off the southern coast of the island of Shikoku about 420 miles southwest of Tokyo at 4 p.m. local time Monday, the weather bureau said.

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Work on a cover for the turbine building of the No. 3 reactor started yesterday, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at Tepco, said at a briefing in Tokyo. The cover is needed because the building’s basements and nearby trenches are full of highly radiated water that may overflow in heavy rain, Tepco spokesman Satoshi Watanabe said.

Last year, the eyes of two storms passed within 300 kilometers of Tohoku, data from the weather agency show.

Typhoon Ma-on was moving north-northeast at 15 kilometers per hour with winds blowing at 139 kilometers per hour, the Japanese weather agency said.

The storm is forecast to turn more to the east and pass near Tokyo late today, according to the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center. An earlier forecast indicated the storm may pass over the Fukushima plant by July 21.

The Japanese weather agency issued warnings for heavy rain and flooding from Okinawa in the southwest to Fukushima prefecture north of Tokyo, where the damaged plant is located.

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latest predicted track..

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