Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in southern Japan on Thursday, local time, causing at least three deaths and raising concerns of flooding, landslides, and severe damage.
Nearly 1 million people were evacuated, and 4 million were urged to leave before the storm made landfall on the island of Kyushu, just south of Nagasaki. The typhoon brought nearly 2 feet of rainfall—more than the August average—in parts of Miyazaki Prefecture, according to the country’s weather service.
“This is a dangerous system,” the Joint Typhoon Warning Center stated. “Possible risks include damaging winds, heavy rainfall, storm surge, rough seas, mudslides, and flash flooding.”
Boasting maximum sustained wind speeds of 100 mph, its strength was equal to that of a Category 2 Hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. This is a slight decrease from 112 mph recorded earlier, which would have made it equal to a Category 3 hurricane....
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