Hurricane Khanun forces Japan atomic bomb commemorations inside
TOKYO: Hurricane Khanun was heading in the right direction Monday to dump extended, heavy rain on considered one of Japan’s foremost islands this week, forecasters mentioned, forcing commemorations of the Nagasaki atomic bombing to be held inside.
The storm final week reportedly killed a minimum of two individuals, injured greater than 100 and reduce off energy for a number of hundred thousand individuals within the southern Okinawa area earlier than barrelling in the direction of Taiwan.
The climate system has since swung again to the Okinawa space and was anticipated to rumble northwards to the west of Kyushu on Tuesday and Wednesday earlier than veering in the direction of South Korea, the Japan Meteorological Company mentioned in a televised press briefing.
The storm “may deliver important rainfall in large areas,” an company official informed the briefing, including that “heavy rainfall will improve the danger of disasters”.
The storm pressured Nagasaki, one of many foremost cities on Kyushu, to scale down its annual commemoration ceremony of the 1945 bombing scheduled for Wednesday.
The ceremony is historically held outdoor on the metropolis’s Peace Park and is attended by authorities ministers, officers and hundreds of friends together with survivors of the bombing.
The storm was situated east of the island of Amami Oshima on Monday afternoon, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) south of Kyushu, gusting as much as 144 kilometres (90 miles) per hour, the company mentioned.
The slow-moving nature of the storm may imply rainfalls may develop into extended, growing dangers of disasters similar to flooding and landslides, the company mentioned.
