Kong-rey typhoon heads to Japan

The typhoon is expected to follow southern Japan on Saturday morning at local time with sustained winds of 120 km / h – the equivalent of a category 1 hurricane.

This storm follows Typhoon Trami, who made landfall last Sunday in Wakayama province.

The country has more than just its share of the storms named this year: eight have been close enough to have direct impacts on the country.

Kong-rey will be the third super-typhoon to hit Japan this year, although – like the previous two, Jebi and Trami – the storm has weakened below the super-typhoon threshold (winds above 240 km / h) when it will reach the island nation.

In the early days of September, Jebi – the most powerful typhoon on the continent for 25 years, resulting in gusts of over 200 km / h – has been shot down over Kochi province.

When the typhoon Kong-rey gets closer to continental Japan, it should not be as powerful as the Jebi or even Typhoon Trami, which hit a powerful typhoon at 157 km / h.

However, it is expected that Typhoon Prapiroon took the same path in early July, along the Korean peninsula of western Japan.

The typhoon Prapiroon and the stationary front "Baiu" were one of the deadliest disasters Japan has seen since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Hundreds of people died from the floods, while Prapiroon humidity on the mountainous terrain of central Japan. In 10 days, some localities in Japan received two to four times more rain than the month of July.

There should not be so much rain in this storm, but parts of southern Japan and South Korea could receive more than 250 mm of rain at the Kong-rey crossing, which could lead to sudden floods and landslides.