Japan will experience the strongest typhoon to hit the country after 15 years as Super Typhoon Neoguri barrels toward Japan’s Okinawa islands on Monday, July 7, 2014. The super typhoon has a gusts of up to 270 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour) and packed with violent winds and torrential rains according to Japanese weather agency.
The national weather agency of Japan noted that the storm could b one of the worst in decades, it is expected to slam into the southernmost island chain of Japan early Tuesday and could reach the mainland by Wednesday.
The national government of Japan and its corresponding agencies have already issued warning among its residents, even the US Air Force Base in Pacific stationed in Japan, evacuated some its aircraft in a safe place.
Based upon the latest weather bulletin of the Japanese Weather Bureau, Super Typhoon Neoguri was located some 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Okinawa’s main island at around 0300 GMT and was moving north northwest at 25 kilometers (16 miles) per hour.
The meteorological agency of Japan forecast that Neoguri, whose name means racoon in Korean, would dump up to 80 millimeters or three inches of rain in just one hour as it pours down the archipelago, particularly in the areas of Okinawa. The super typhoon could affect an area with 500 kilometer radius.
