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Typhoon Wipha makes landfall: Mudslides kill 14 in Japan; 50 missing

Associated Press
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:54 UTC

© Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images
Japanese businessmen walk against strong wind and rain as Typhoon Wipha reached Tokyo on Wednesday.

A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo's transportation during the morning rush. At least 14 deaths were reported and more than 50 people were missing.

Hardest hit was Izu Oshima island about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Tokyo. Rescuers found 13 bodies, most of them buried by mudslides, police and town officials said. Dozens of homes were destroyed, and more than 50 people are missing. "We have no idea how bad the extent of damage could be," town official Hinani Uematsu said.

One woman from Tokyo died after falling into a river and being washed 10 kilometers (6 miles) downriver to Yokohama, police said. Two sixth-grade boys and another person were missing on Japan's main island, Honshu, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.

More than 350 homes have been damaged or destroyed, including 283 on Izu Oshima, it said.

Comment: Had the rain fallen as snow it would have been 8 meters of snow in a 24 hour period, instead 80 cm of rain fell.

'Once in a decade' Typhoon Wipha threatens Japan; precautions at Fukushima nuclear plant

Aaron Sheldrick
Reuters via Yahoo News
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:40 UTC

A once-in-a-decade typhoon threatened Japan on Tuesday, disrupting travel and shipping and forcing precautions to be taken at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant. Typhoon Wipha is moving across the Pacific straight towards the capital, Tokyo, and is expected to make landfall during the morning rush hour on Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds to the metropolitan area of 30 million people.

The center of the storm was 860 km (535 miles) southwest of Tokyo at 0800 GMT, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. It was moving north-northeast at 35 kph (22 mph). The storm had weakened as it headed north over the sea but was still packing sustained winds of about 140 kph (87 mph) with gusts as high as 194 kph (120 mph), the agency said.

Typhoon Nari knocked down trees and damaged hundreds of houses in central Vietnam early on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, state media said.

Strong typhoon Wipha heads for Japan and crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

RT
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:17 UTC

A powerful typhoon is bearing down on Japan - and its path is set to go through the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. It's less than 24 hours until the storm is due to hit. The storm has been branded a "once in a decade event".

The country's weather agency has issued warnings of torrential rain and strong winds ahead of the coming typhoon, Wipha.

450 flights have been canceled across Japan in measures against the coming typhoon. The combined cancelations will affect 60,850 passengers, Japan Airlines Co said.

East Japan Railway Co said it had canceled 31 bullet trains going north and west from Tokyo, Reuters reported.

The typhoon is moving towards the country at a speed of 35 kilometers per hour, and is currently to the south of the country in the Pacific ocean.

Near its center, the speed of the typhoon can exceed 144 kilometers per hour.

"Wipha will remain a strong and expansive extra-tropical system as it tracks along the eastern coast of Japan," the US-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported on its website.

The exact track of Wipha is crucial: if its center passes just west of Tokyo, a large storm surge would affect the city of more than 35 million people and potentially bring major flooding.

Typhoon Nari kills five, causes major damage in Vietnam

AFP
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:44 UTC

Typhoon Nari slammed into central Vietnam early Tuesday killing five people, ripping roofs of homes and damaging roads, state media reported. The storm, which claimed 13 lives in the Philippines over the weekend, tore through the communist country's central region -- from the tourist town of Hue to Quang Ngai to the south, Vietnam Television reported.

Trees were uprooted and thousands of houses had their roofs ripped off while many roads became impassable due to torrential rain, footage showed.

Schools were closed Tuesday in Danang city, which bore the brunt of the typhoon when it hit packing winds of up to 133 kilometers (82 miles) an hour, state media said.

Before Nari hit, Vietnam evacuated more than 120,000 people to makeshift shelters in public buildings away from vulnerable coastal areas, according to the country's disaster authorities.

Vietnamese weather forecasters said the typhoon had crossed the border to Laos by midday Tuesday.

Nari is the 11th tropical storm to hit Vietnam so far this year.

Last month Typhoon Wutip left a trail of destruction in the communist state, damaging nearly 200,000 houses and killing several people.

Forty people have been killed in flooding in Vietnam since early September, according to official figures.

800,000 evacuated as powerful cyclone Phailin hits India

Gardiner Harris
New York Times
Sun, 13 Oct 2013 01:37 UTC

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High tide waves approach the Bay of Bengal coast near Gopalpur beach in Ganjam district, Bhubaneswar on Saturday (inset) A live tracker of cyclone phailin taken from WunderMap.

A powerful cyclone whose spinning arms engulfed much of the Bay of Bengal weakened Sunday morning as it crashed into India's eastern coast, flooding homes and roads throughout the region and disrupting electricity and communications.

The authorities evacuated about 800,000 people, one of the largest such evacuations in India's history. The storm's maximum sustained winds, which were approximately 124 miles per hour when the storm made landfall about 9 p.m. Saturday, had dropped to less than half that strength nine hours later.

At least five people were killed in the coastal city of Gopalpur because of heavy rain and high winds before the storm made landfall, officials said. The storm was expected to drop up to 10 inches of rain over the next two days in some areas.

Five dead, millions without power as typhoon Nari hits Philippines

AFP
Sat, 12 Oct 2013 02:12 UTC

Typhoon Nari pummelled the northern Philippines early Saturday, ripping roofs off buildings, killing five people and leaving more than two million people without electricity, officials said.

Nari hit the country's east coast around midnight (1600 GMT Friday), toppling trees and pylons and dumping heavy rain as it cut a westward swathe through the farming regions of the main island of Luzon, they said.

"One of the dead was a police officer awaiting deployment for rescue duties. He was buried in a mudslide," National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council spokesman Rey Balido told a news conference in Manila.

Three people were crushed to death by falling trees while another person was electrocuted by a loose power line, Balido added.

The damage blacked out 37 towns and cities across central Luzon, according to a tally by the civil defence office in the region.

Road and utility crews were out clearing roads and restoring power, but it could take up to two days before electricity is restored and major highways are reopened to traffic, Nigel Lontoc, a disaster official for the region, told AFP by telephone.

A total of 2.1 million people live in the areas now without electricity, according to official population figures. Balido said four people were listed as missing, including a fisherman on the country's east coast who had been sleeping in his boat when the cyclone made landfall.

"Big waves swept the boat out to sea," he added.

Indian cyclone Phailin threatens 12 million, says disaster authority

Nita Bhalla
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Sat, 12 Oct 2013 01:34 UTC

© Reuters
A big wave smashes into a breakwater at a fishing harbour in Jalaripeta in the Visakhapatnam district in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Twelve million people along India's eastern coast face mass disruption as a powerful cyclone bears down on the region in the next 24 hours, the head of the National Disaster Management Authority (NMDA) said on Friday.

Meteorologists predict Phailin could be the most catastrophic storm to hit India in 14 years, when a super cyclone pounded Odisha, leaving 10,000 people dead.

Now in the Bay of Bengal, Cyclone Phailin is forecast to reach the coast of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states on Saturday evening, bringing gale-force winds, lashing rains, storm surges and widespread flooding.

"The affected populations ... should be about 1.2 crores (12 million)," Shashidhar Reddy, the NMDA's vice-chairman told a news conference.

Signs of change in the last week of September 2013

HawkkeyDavis Channel
YouTube
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:00 UTC

The events around the world have been unprecedented over the last few weeks. Some of the most dramatic and unbelievable footage I've ever seen from events that took place in the past week or so. Please use these videos for awareness to these ongoing extremes that seem to be getting worse each week. Prepare for disasters in your area! You're no different than others that are already dealing with them and most were not ready...

In just a couple of weeks we saw a devastating typhoon hit Japan and China, a 'one-in-one-thousand-years' flood hit Colorado, record rainfall in Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, Brazil, and India, fireballs turning night into day over Canada and the US, a powerful tornado in Sao Paulo, a 7.7 earthquake in Pakistan that formed a new island in the ocean, followed just 4 days later by 7.2 in the same region, a 7.0 earthquake in Peru, a daytime fireball in Alabama...these are just some of the highlights from the last week of another crazy month on planet Earth!

Thanks for watching here and stay safe!

Eastern India braces for impact of major cyclone Phailin - 'very severe cyclonic storm'

Associated Press via Yahoo News
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:38 UTC

This image provided by the U.S. Naval Research Lab shows Indian Cyclone Phailin taken Friday Oct. 11, 2013 at 6:32 a.m. EDT (10:32 GMT).

Officials ordered tens of thousands of coastal villagers to flee their homes Friday as a massive cyclone - so large it filled nearly the entire Bay of Bengal - gathered strength and headed toward India's eastern seaboard. Officials canceled holy day celebrations and stockpiled emergency supplies in coastal Orissa and Andhra Pradesh states, with forecasters saying Cyclone Phailin will hit the region Saturday evening.

The Indian Meteorological Department warned that Phailin was a "very severe cyclonic storm" that was expected to hit with maximum sustained winds of 210-220 kilometers (130-135 miles) per hour. If the storm continues on its current path without weakening, it is expected to cause large-scale power and communications outages and shut down road and rail links, officials said. There would also be extensive damage to crops.

100mph winds to batter Britain! Indian summer ends as UK set for '-3C Arctic plunge'

Nathan Rao
Express
Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00 UTC

Forecasters warned of a "dramatic change" from today as warm conditions make way for a Polar blast.

They said fierce winds at sea will whip up huge waves triggering potentially disruptive flooding in coastal regions.

The Met Office issued a severe weather warning for winds in the East today and warned of 100mph gusts in the Scottish Mountains.

The Environment Agency warned people not to walk along coastal paths and avoid driving on sea roads at risk of flooding.

It warned 5ft waves along the east coast will send waves crashing over seafront promenades and flooding local roads.

The mercury is expected to plunge today bringing temperatures "dramatically" lower than enjoyed over the past week.

The Met Office warned parts of Scotland will shiver in overnight lows of -3C (27F) while thermometers in the South will struggle to rise out of single figures.

Spokesman Laura Young said: "On Thursday the risk is of strong winds and waves, which could cause disruption in eastern coastal regions.

"There is also the risk of hail and some potentially heavy rainfall mainly in the East and South-east, people should be aware of coastal disruption.

"Over the next couple of days it is going to feel much colder and there is the risk of localised gales.

"Over the high ground in the hills there will be some wintry showers and a dusting of snow."

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Storms

Typhoon Wipha makes landfall: Mudslides kill 14 in Japan; 50 missing

'Once in a decade' Typhoon Wipha threatens Japan; precautions at Fukushima nuclear plant

Strong typhoon Wipha heads for Japan and crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

Typhoon Nari kills five, causes major damage in Vietnam

800,000 evacuated as powerful cyclone Phailin hits India

Five dead, millions without power as typhoon Nari hits Philippines

Indian cyclone Phailin threatens 12 million, says disaster authority

Signs of change in the last week of September 2013

Eastern India braces for impact of major cyclone Phailin - 'very severe cyclonic storm'

100mph winds to batter Britain! Indian summer ends as UK set for '-3C Arctic plunge'

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